This map, published in 2022 by Deutsche Welle with data from InSight Crime, shows the homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants in 2021 in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The map uses a colour code to show the countries where homicides are most common and those where they are least common:

• Red: rates between 40 and 50 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants (Jamaica and Venezuela).
• Orange: rates between 30 and 40 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants (Honduras and Trinidad and Tobago).
• Yellow: rates between 20 and 30 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants (Belize, Colombia, and Mexico).
• Dark blue: rates between 10 and 20 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants (Puerto Rico, Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic).
• Light blue: rates between 0 and 10 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants (Uruguay, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Peru, and Chile).
• Grey: countries without data (Bolivia, Argentina, Surinam, and Cuba).

Although Argentina and Bolivia appear without information on this map, the official rate used in 2021 is 5 and 3.5 respectively, so they would have been coloured light blue if InSight Crime had had the data at the time this infographic was created.

Sources

• The logic of homicidal violence spreads throughout Latin America