A report recorded a rape every six minutes in 2023

The rapes in Brazil were up 6.5% last year compared to 2022, with an average of one case every six minuteswhile homicides fell for the third consecutive year, according to a report released Thursday.

The largest country in Latin America recorded 83,988 rapes in 2023a record since the NGO Brazilian Forum on Public Security (FBSP)a reference in these investigations, began to collect data in 2011 from police records.

In its annual reportthe FBSP notes a 91.5% increase in the number of violations compared to 2011 figures, and “a practically uninterrupted increase over the last thirteen years.”

He 88.2% of the victims are women and the 61.6% are under 14 years old. 64% of child abusers are family members.

The increase in the number of cases registered at police stations shows “greater awareness (…), with victims more encouraged to file complaints, but we cannot ignore that this figure is very high,” he said. Samira Bueno, Executive Director of FBSP.

Bueno said that this scourge continues to have a significant underreporting. “When the victims are children, This type of violence can be repeated for a long time. before being identified by a person in charge or at school,” he said.

Decline in homicide rate

As for the homicidesBrazil reported 46,328 in 2023the first mark below 47,000 since the FBSP began recording data thirteen years ago. This represents a 3.4% drop Compared to 2022, the third consecutive annual decline in this country of 203 million inhabitants.

But the homicide rate, 22.8 per 100,000 inhabitantsis almost four times higher than the world average (5.8 per 100,000) calculated by United Nations.

“Brazil is home to around 3% of the world’s population, but is responsible for almost 10% of all homicides committed on the planet”He said president of the FBSP, Renato Sergio from Limaquoted in a press release.

The report also lists 6,393 people killed during police interventions in 2023, slightly fewer than in 2022 (6,429). Of these, 82.7% They were people black and 71.7%, They had between 12 and 29 years old.