Latin America & Caribbean: number of armed civilians by country 2017
armed civilian population as of 2017, with over 17.5 million individuals holding at least one firearm. Mexico ranked second, with an estimated 16.8 million civilians in possession of a gun. The Dominican Republic, in turn, was the Caribbean nation with the largest armed civilian population, at 795 thousand.
Brazil, the most populated Latin American country, had the highest number of