Cities By Murder Rate
Feb 7, 2016
The Economist recently published an interesting graph of the most violent cities in the world (in terms of homicide rates) in their daily chart section. They include an analysis of the Venezuelan economy in turmoil and, according to a Mexican report, “Venezuela’s capital Caracas had the highest murder rate in the world last year”.
Wikipedia also offers a page compiling a list of cities by murder rate. Unfortunately, most of the top 50 cities on this list are located in South America (and many of those in Brazil!). Take a look at the following chart and map:
