According to statistics presented by the Attorney General’s Office, during the last twelve years and three months at least 26,760 people have been murdered in the country. Most of the murders were attributed to fights, violent actions and shootouts.
The average number of deaths between 2005 and 2016 is 2,147 a year with the peaks being in 2010 when 2,472 were killed and 2005 when 2,403 died. This year, 2017 during the last three months there have been 406 cases of homicide; 343 men and 63 women.
The Citizen Security Observatory (OSC-RD) projects that the final number of homicides at the end of the years will be 16 per 100,000 inhabitants. Up to the same date in 2016 there were 402 homicides and the year closed also with a rate of 16 per 100,000 population.
In 2016, Dominican Republic was in fifth place in the ranking of homicides for the region and along Puerto Rico with a rate of 20 per 100,000 population, Mexico has 16.2, Costa Rica 11.8, and Bolivia with 10.8 according to data from the Center for the Investigation of Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean.
First and second positions were taken by El Salvador (81.2); Venezuela and Honduras with 59 each.
In 2015 Dominican Republic the rate was 16.78; in 2014 it was 17.42.
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Listin Diario
25 July 2017
