44.91
homicide victims per 100,000 residents, 2024
Moderate trust, 79 of 100 The sources disagree: their figures run from 36.65 to 44.91.
All citiesAll of Brazil's figures
Recife, Brazil among 50 cities
29 have a higher figure and 20 a lower one. Definitions differ between cities, and their years run from 2022 to 2025.
What this number counts
- Counts
- Intentional homicide victims per 100,000 residents
- Where
- Recife, Brazil, as CCSPJP delimits it: the municipalities of Abreu e Lima, Araçoiaba, Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Camaragibe, Igarassu, Ilha de Itamaracá, Ipojuca, Itapissuma, Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Moreno, Olinda, Paulista, Recife and São Lourenço da Mata
- When
- Latest year from each source: CCSPJP 2025, SIM 2024 (each source's latest year)
Where the number comes from (2 sources)
| Source | Figure and year | Definition | Quality | Counts for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
CCSPJP ranking of the 50 most violent cities in the world, 2025Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal A.C. (CCSPJP) · Independent countRetrieved 2026-10-26 | 36.652025 | Rank 36 of 50.Intentional homicide victims in 2025 (1,452) divided by 3,961,730 residents, for the city as CCSPJP delimits it (all municipalities that form one continuous urban area). Source for this country: police counts for each municipality from the federal Ministry of Justice database (SINESP VDE), with IBGE 2025 population estimates. Table 1, pp. 7-8; sources and calculations for this country in section 5, from p. 28. The report was read from the Internet Archive copy; CCSPJP's own site (seguridadjusticiaypaz.org.mx, hosted at geoenlace.net) redirected to an error page on 2026-10-26. | 3 of 5 checks
| 38% |
DataSUS mortality information system (SIM), deaths by assaultMinistério da Saúde, Brazil (DataSUS) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-10-26 | 44.912024 | Deaths in 2024 with underlying cause assault (ICD-10 X85-Y09) that occurred in Abreu e Lima, Araçoiaba, Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Camaragibe, Igarassu, Ilha de Itamaracá, Ipojuca, Itapissuma, Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Moreno, Olinda, Paulista, Recife and São Lourenço da Mata (1,776; TabNet "Óbitos p/Ocorrênc"), divided by IBGE's estimated resident population on 1 July 2024 (3,954,323).2024 is the latest final year; 2025 is marked preliminary. Raw files: sim-ext10pe-municipio-ocorrencia-2024.html (query saved beside it) and sidra_6579_2024_ce_pe_ba_al_ro.json (https://apisidra.ibge.gov.br/values/t/6579/n6/in%20n3%2023,26,29,27,11/v/9324/p/2024). Counted by municipality of residence (TabNet's default, sim-ext10pe-municipio-residencia-2024.html), the count is 1,642; deaths in hospitals that treat victims from nearby areas raise the count by place of occurrence. | 5 of 5 checks
| 63% |
- CCSPJP38%
- SIM63%
How the trust score was worked out
- Quality34 / 40
How well the sources are made
- Agreement19 / 30
How close the sources are to each other
- Independence16 / 20
How many separate ways the number was measured
- Freshness10 / 10
How recent the newest data is
Who reports it, and since when
No source of these kinds: police and justice records.
figure no figure here, inside its range no later figure recorded change
Why the numbers differ
- City boundaries: CCSPJP adds up every municipality that forms one continuous urban area with the city (built-up areas less than 10 km apart), while UNODC and many official tables report the city or municipality proper. A metro-area rate and a single-municipality rate are not the same number. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- Population estimates: each rate depends on its denominator. CCSPJP makes its own population estimates for Mexican municipalities and Trinidad, and takes Port-au-Prince's from a commercial website, while the official lines here use each statistics office's own projections (CONAPO, IBGE, DANE, INEC) or the FBI's population figures.
- CCSPJP's own estimates: for Mexico it raises SESNSP's municipal counts of case files by a correction factor, because SESNSP publishes victims only by state; for Port-au-Prince it assigns 70% of a national total projected from UN figures. In 2024 its Mexican estimates were below INEGI's death counts in 17 of 20 cities (report p. 70). (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- Years differ: the ranking is for 2025, while the latest definitive death registers are for 2024 and UNODC's city data stop in 2022 or earlier.
- Death registers count deaths whose certified cause is assault, by where the death occurred; police records count victims of crimes the police recorded, by where the crime was recorded. Deaths coded as "undetermined intent" can hide homicides in the death registers.
Common mistakes
- The ranking is not a list of every city in the world: it only includes cities of 300,000 or more people with published or estimable data, and it excludes deaths in armed conflict, so cities in war zones or in countries without city data cannot appear. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- Numbeo's "Crime Index" and other website rankings built from visitor surveys measure how safe people feel, not homicide rates. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
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Cite as: RealStats, “Homicide rate in Recife, Brazil”, updated 2026-10-26, with the original sources listed on the page.