According to the latest statistics, Jamaica has the fifth-highest homicide rate in the world, with 49 murders per year per 100,000 people, trailing only Iraq (89 per 100,000), Venezuela (65 per 100,000), El Salvador (55.3 per 100,000), and Honduras (49.9 per 100,000).
Other destinations in the Caribbean region with murder rates higher than the United States include:
- Colombia: 37 murders per 100,000
- Belize: 30.8 murders per 100,000
- Trinidad and Tobago: 30.38 murders per 100,000
- Mexico: 25 murders per 100,000
- Dominican Republic: 25.56 murders per 100,000
- Puerto Rico (a Commonwealth of the United States): 18.8 per 100,000
- Ecuador: 18.33 per 100,000
- Haiti: 11.5 per 100,000
- Panama: 11.3 per 100,000
- Suriname: 10.30 per 100,000
- Costa Rica: 7.68 per 100,000
- Barbados: 7.49 per 100,000
According to the latest available data (from 2006), the murder rate in the United States was 5.7 per 100,000 population.
Caribbean destinations with murder rates lower than the U.S. include:
- Dominica: 2.74 per 100,000
- Bermuda: 1.56 per 100,000
This list is incomplete: crime reports from some Caribbean nations fall under those of their parent nations, such as France or the Netherlands, and some nations may underreport or fail to report crime data.
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