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InSight Crime's 2021 Homicide Round-Up

InSight Crime

1 February 2022

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Uruguay: 8.5 per 100,000

According to the government's 2021 homicide statistics, Uruguay recorded 300 homicides last year, an 11 percent drop from the 338 murders in 2020 and 342 in 2019.

However, the opposition Broad Front party alleged the figures had been deflated, citing a category of "suspicious deaths" created by the Interior Ministry, which, they said, meant dozens of homicides had been excluded from the total.

ID: N878

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