During the first nine months of 2018, there were 801 murders in the Dominican Republic, equal to 10.4 per 100,000 population. The figures were provided by the Observatory for Citizen Safety and published in Diario Libre newspaper. They reveal that the most crime in the first nine months of the year occurred in the Santo Domingo province with 73 murders, National District with 36, Santiago with 30, La Altagracia 22, La Vega 17, San Cristóbal 16, Duarte 12 and La Romana 11.
On the other hand, the lease crime was reported in the provinces of San José de Ocoa, where there was no murders and Santiago Rodríguez and Hermanas Mirabal, which each had one. Across the region, the Dominican Republic was number 14 out of the 21 countries in the Americas for being the most violent.
According to the Insight Crime Foundation, the most violent country in the Americas is
Venezuela with 81.4 per each 100,000 inhabitants, followed by El Salvador with 51. The lowest index is Chile with 2.7 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
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Diario Libre
Diario Libre
Observatorio de Seguridad
5 February 2019
