Costa Rica: number of homicides 2016-2021
Costa Rica's homicide rate has remained at around 11 victims per 100,000 inhabitants in recent years.
In Costa Rica, the number of homicide victims has remained steady bellow 600 per year since, at least, 2016. The number of people murdered in this Central American country amounted to 565 in 2021, up from 549 deaths reported a year earlier.