Dying in Haiti: Homicide Rate in Haiti Less than Peoria

12.10.12

Dying in Haiti: Homicide Rate in Haiti Less than Peoria: By Roger Annis
Published in Haiti Liberte, Jan 4, 2012
The 2011 Global Study on Homicide by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODP) has published its world survey for 2011. Its published figures on homicide rates place Haiti very low in comparison to the other countries of the Caribbean and Latin America.

According to the study, Haiti's homicide rate in 2010 was 6.9 per 100,000 population. That compares to Jamaica(highest rate in the Caribbean) at 52, Trinidad at 35, the Bahamas at 28 and neighbouring Dominican Republic at 24. The rate for the U.S. colonies of Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands (2007 statistics) is 26 and 39, respectively.

The highest murder rates in the world are in Honduras (82), El Salvador (66), Belize (42) and Guatemala (41), all of which are U.S. client states. (By comparison, Nicaragua's rate is 13, Mexico's is 20 and Brazil's is 23 (2009 figures)). Haiti's rate is only marginally higher than the U.S., which is 5.