Number of homicides in Brazil by gender

Considering the nearly 48,000 homicides registered in Brazil in 2021, almost 92 percent had men as victims. Meanwhile, approximately 3,860 women were killed in the South American country that year.

Number of homicides in Brazil from 2006 to 2021, by gender (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Men	Women
2021	43.91	3.86
2020	45.92	3.83
2019	41.69	3.74
2018	53.31	4.52
2017	60.56	4.94
2016	57.77	4.65
2015	54.36	4.62
2014	55.53	4.84
2013	52.52	4.77
2012	52.24	4.73
2011	48.22	4.52
2010	48.49	4.48
2009	47.71	4.27
2008	46.56	4.03
2007	44.39	3.78
2006	45.61	4.03

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Release date

December 2023

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Region

Brazil

Survey time period

2006 to 2021

Supplementary notes

The source notes that the notable descend of homicides registered in 2019 may be due to a deterioration in data quality, as reflected by the disproportionate increase in the number of violent deaths by undetermined manner (which grew by 69,9 percent between 2017 and 2019). Moreover, that year there was a woman victim of violent death with no clear cause for every woman victim of homicide.
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