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Category: Crime in the Caribbean by country. ... Crime in the Cayman Islands ... Statistics; Cookie statement; Mobile view ...
Crime in the Caribbean by country (13 C, 1 P) + Crime in the British Virgin Islands (1 C) Crime in Martinique (3 C, 1 P) ... Statistics; Cookie statement ...
When Jamaica gained independence in 1962, the murder rate was 3.9 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the lowest in the world. [4] In 2022, Jamaica had 1,508 murders, for a murder rate of 53.34 per 100,000 people, [5] the highest murder rate in the world. [2] [6] Jamaica recorded 1,680 murders in 2009. [7] In 2010, there were 1,428, in 2011, 1,125.
The Jamaica Tourist Board said the crime rate against visitors to Jamaica remains extremely low at 0.01%, while Bartlett noted that 42% of the island’s visitors are returning tourists.
People are advised to take caution in areas where crime is known to occur, such as downtown George Town and parts of West Bay. It is rare to be the victim of a serious crime, but pickpocketing and muggings are possible. In 2010, the homicide rate in the Cayman Islands was 15.88 per 100,000 people. It decreased to 8.22 per 100,000 people in 2014 ...
The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a homicide rate of 30 out of 100,000 is presented in the table as "30", and corresponds to 0.03% of the population dying by homicide.
Almost 5,400 firearms recovered from crime scenes from 2018 to 2022 in several Caribbean nations - including Haiti, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago - can be sourced back to the US, the GAO said.
Violence and crime absorb almost 3.5% of Latin America and the Caribbean's (LAC) economic output, depleting funds that could be used in education and assisting the vulnerable, a report by the ...