InSight Crime’s 2025 Homicide Round-Up Latin America

Despite the widespread use of states of emergency, the increasingly militarized response to organized crime, and the growth of criminal economies, the murder rate in 2025 across Latin America and the Caribbean declined.

While murders in the region dropped last year as a whole, a number of countries, including Ecuador and Haiti, saw homicide rates hit new highs, spurred by criminal dynamics.

In total, at least 108,838 people were murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean during 2025, putting the median homicide rate at around 17.6 per 100,000 people, over 5% lower than in 2024. 

InSight Crime analyzes the organized crime dynamics behind the violence in every country in the region. All homicide rates are victims per 100,000 people, unless otherwise stated.

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