RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil recorded a 19 percent drop in violent crime in 2019 compared to the previous year, according to the national homicide index created by the G1 news portal, based on official data from the country’s 27 states. The survey showed there were 41,635 murders in the country last year, compared to 51,558 in 2018.
It was the lowest number of violent crimes recorded in the whole historical series of the Brazilian Public Safety Forum, started in 2007, which compiled the data for this survey in partnership with the Center for the Study of Violence of the University of São Paulo (NEV-USP).
The survey considers the number of murders, including crimes against women due to gender, armed robbery followed by death, and bodily injury followed by death.
Brazil’s Minister of Justice and Public Safety, Sérgio Moro, commented on the survey’s result on Twitter.
“A record drop in the number of murders in 2019 in the country, after an increase from 2007 to 2017. There were 9,923 fewer victims than in 2018. Congratulations to all federal, state and municipal security forces. Let’s work hard and together in order to improve,” Moro wrote.
The data also pointed out that although the number of violent crimes in the country has retreated, the drop in the last quarter of last year was not as steep as in the previous months, standing at 11.8 percent.
Nine Brazilian states bucked the trend and recorded an increase in the number of murders from October to December.
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