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As of September 2020, the Dominican Republic recorded 705 murders according to its Citizen Security Observatory, giving the country a projected annual total of 940 killings and a homicide rate of 9.0 per 100,000 (one of the lowest in the region).
Dominican Republic: 231 ... Persons Detained Statistics of incarceration ("detained") from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; Data Analysis Tools ...
Dominican Republic: Americas 142 134 5 0 3 10,770,000 131.8 2017 [19] South Africa: Africa 436 56,720,000 76.9 2017/8 [20] Central African Republic: Africa 30+ 30+ 4,659,000 64.4 2015/6 18 documented executions with credible information about 12 other cases [21] Lesotho: Africa 19 2,233,000 63.8 2017/8 Data from 16 months, rate divided accordingly.
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.
The U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory for the Dominican Republic because of crime, including sexual assault. Here's more information.
All the data in this table is from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). [2] There are 2 countries in the UNODC dataset that are missing from the table below: Egypt (2.062 rate in 2011) and India (0.297 rate in 2012). Asterisk (*) in Location column indicates a Crime in LOCATION article.
Crime and violence affect the lives of millions of people in Latin America.Some consider social inequality to be a major contributing factor to levels of violence in Latin America, [1] where the state fails to prevent crime and organized crime takes over State control in areas where the State is unable to assist the society such as in impoverished communities.
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