• Number of homicides in Brazil by region 2019

From the 45.5 thousand homicides registered in Brazil throughout 2019, approximately 18.7 thousand of them were reported in the Northeast region of the country. In 2007, around 15.47 thousand murders were recorded in the same region.

Number of homicides in Brazil from 2007 to 2019, by region (in 1,000s)

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Release date

2021

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Region

Brazil

Survey time period

2007 to 2019

Supplementary notes

The source notes that the notable descend of homicides registered in 2019 may be due to a deterioration in data quality (especially in states such as Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Ceará and Bahia) as reflected by the disproportionate increase in the number of violent deaths by undetermined manner. Violent deaths with no clear cause grew by 69,9 percent between 2017 and 2019; for example, in the case of Rio de Janeiro, they experienced a 237 percent increase in 2019, while the total rate of homicides fell by 45,3 percent. Therefore, the source estimates that there could be around 5.338 more homicides in the country than officially recorded in 2019.

Figures have been rounded.