Brazil had 65,600 murders in 2017, reveals Atlas of Violence by Ipea and the Brazilian Forum of Public Security. The survey considers records of the Mortality Information System, produced by the Ministry of Health.
The report warns of violence against youth, blacks, women and the LGBTI + population.
75% of homicide victims in Brazil in 2017 were black, according to the Atlas of Violence. Within a decade (from 2007 to 2017), the rate of blacks murdered rose by 33.1%. The murder was also the cause of half of the deaths of young people in Brazil in 2017.
This was the first time the Atlas of Violence included statistics on violence against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transvestite and intersex population.
Another report produced by the Indian Missionary Council (CIMI) analyzed in 2018 data for the year 2017. The CIMI report also showed an increase in violence against indigenous peoples in Brazil. In cases of indigenous murder, the year 2017 registered 110 cases.
Brazil is also a country where there is a lot of violence against journalists. In 2018, the index increased by 36%, according to a report by the National Federation of Journalists (Fenaj). According to a survey, 227 journalists were verbally or physically attacked. 64 journalists were killed in their practice in Brazil between 1995 and 2018, according to a report by the Public Prosecutor's Office.
According to the magazine Superinteressante, Brazil has had more homicides than all of these countries in 2015: USA, Canada, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, China, Mongolia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece and Macedonia.
