Crime in Brazil

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Crime in Brazil involves an elevated incidence of violent and non-violent crimes.^[1] Brazil's homicide rate was 21.26 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2021, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).^[2] In absolute terms, Brazil has the highest number of intentional homicides in the world with 57,358 in 2018, but adjusted for population, Brazil is in 18th place.^{[citation needed]} In recent years,^[when?] the homicide rate in Brazil has begun to decline. The homicide rate was 20.89 per 100,000 in 2019 with 43,073 killings, down from 30.59 per 100,000 with 63.788 killings in 2017.^[3] Some states had lower than a 10.0 homicide rate such as São Paulo with 8.4 and Santa Catarina 9.1 per 100.000.^[4]

Brazil rates second in illegal drug trade.^{[5][clarification needed]}