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This is a list of Brazilian federative units by homicide rate, according to data from the Atlas da Violência (years 1996 to 2021, [1] [2] prepared by the Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea) and the Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública (FBSP) [3] and the Mapa da Violência from 1998 (1980s to 1988 [4]) and 2000 (years 1989 to 1995, [5] prepared by United Nations Educational ...
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Brazil had a homicide rate of 21.26 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2021, [2] up from 20.89 per 100,000 inhabitants with 43,073 murders in 2019; however, this was lower than in 2017, when Brazil had a homicide rate of 30.59 per 100,000 inhabitants. [3]
According to data from the "Map of Violence 2011", published by the Sangari Institute and the Ministry of Justice, the city had the lowest homicide rate per hundred thousand inhabitants that year among all the state capitals in Brazil. [134] Crime indicators, such as homicide, according to data from April 2017, showed a reduction in the capital ...
State Rate Homicides % change Brazil 23.3: 39,519-2.4 Amapá 50.6: 218-25.0 Bahia 47.1: 5,044-5.9 Amazonas 38.8: 1,340-9.3 Alagoas 37.9: 1,107: 4.2 Pernambuco 37.8 ...
Folha de S.Paulo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Brasil 247 (22 January 2019). "Flávio Bolsonaro alegadamente empregou a mãe do chefe do Escritório do Crime" [Flávio Bolsonaro allegedly employed the mother of the head of the Crime Office gang]. Brasil 247. Archived from the original on 24 January 2019. "Brazil's biggest drug gang has gone global".
Sao Paulo accounts for about half of Brazil's sugarcane planting. The fires caused losses estimated at 350 million reais ($63.59 million), according to the Organization of Cane Producers ...
For international calls to Brazil, the international access code used in the calling country must be dialed (for example, 011 from the United States and Canada, 00 from Europe and most other countries, or the actual "+" sign from some mobile networks), then Brazil's country code 55, then the two-digit area code, then the local eight- or nine ...
Drug cartels ship cocaine into Brazil in the poorly policed border area where Peru, Brazil, and Colombia meet. Expansion of coca cultivation on the Peruvian side since 2019 has resulted in increased criminal activity and violence, including murder, in the Tres Fronteras region. In 2022 a Peruvian police outpost was pillaged and burned, and the ...