Worst femicide rates in Brazil by state 2021

In 2021, the northwestern state of Acre had the highest femicide rate in Brazil. At least three of every 100,000 women who lived in those territories were murdered on account of their gender during that year. The average femicide rate was estimated at 1.2 victims per 100,000 women in Brazil.

Femicide rates in Brazil in 2021, by state (number of femicides per 100,000 women)

Characteristic	Number of femicides per 100,000 women
Acre	2.9
Mato Grosso do Sul	2.6
Tocantins	2.6
Mato Grosso	2.4
Piauí	2.2
Rondônia	1.8
Espírito Santo	1.8
Pernambuco	1.7
Sergipe	1.7
Roraima	1.6
Maranhão	1.6
Rio Grande do Sul	1.6
Federal District	1.6
Pará	1.5
Paraíba	1.5
Santa Catarina	1.5
Goiás	1.5
Alagoas	1.4
Minas Gerais	1.4
Paraná	1.3
Bahia	1.1
Amazonas	1.1
Rio Grande do Norte	1.1
Amapá	0.9
Rio de Janeiro	0.9
Ceará	0.7
São Paulo	0.6

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Release date

August 2022

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Brazil

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

Femicide or feminicide is a term used to define the killing of a woman or girl on account of their gender.
Femicide victims are counted according to each state's legal framework.

Various sources include Secretarias Estaduais de Segurança Pública e/ou Defesa Social, Observatório de Análise Criminal, Coordenadoria de Informações Estatísticas e Análises Criminais, Monitor da Violência, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), and Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública (FBSP).

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