In 2018, around seven out of ten homicides in Colombia took place in municipal seats. Meanwhile, nearly 24.5 percent of the murders occurred in rural areas and approximately 5.3 percent of them took place in smaller, remote urban areas.
Excluding 12 cases with no gender determined and 131 with no further information.
Supplementary notes
* According to the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) in Colombia, the term Population Center is defined as "a concentration of at least 20 contiguous dwellings, neighbors or semi-detached houses; located in the rest of the municipality area or in a non-municipalized area."
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Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses. (June 30, 2019). Distribution of homicides in Colombia in 2018, by area [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved February 17, 2020, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/919762/distribution-homicides-colombia-area/
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