Crime · World · Updated 2026-10-26

Which cities have the highest murder rates?

In the Consejo Ciudadano's ranking of cities with 300,000 or more people for 2025, Port-au-Prince, Haiti had the highest homicide rate, 197.43 per 100,000 (the group's own estimate), followed by Babahoyo, Ecuador (166.02) and Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa (119.81), and 17 of the 50 cities are in Mexico; for the 39 cities where an official death or police register covers the same municipalities, the latest official rate (for 2024 or 2025) is within 25% of the ranking's 2025 rate in 19 and lower in 19.

Every figure in this summary is calculated from the sources listed on this page.

Homicide rate, Guayaquil (Ecuador)

Intentional homicide victims per 100,000 residents. Guayaquil, Ecuador, as CCSPJP delimits it: the cantons of Durán, Guayaquil and Samborondón, Latest year from each source: CCSPJP 2025, INEC 2024, UNODC 2022. Unit: per 100,000 people.

69.87per 100,000 people, 2025

63Trust scoreModerate certainty

Quality33 / 40: How well the sources are made
Agreement0 / 30: How close the sources are to each other
Independence20 / 20: How many separate ways the number was measured
Freshness10 / 10: How recent the newest data is

How much each source counts

CCSPJP24%
INEC60%
UNODC17%

Sources

Source	Value	Definition	Quality	Weight
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	91.12025	Rank 8 of 50. Intentional homicide victims in 2025 (3,115) divided by 3,419,461 residents, for the city as CCSPJP delimits it (all municipalities that form one continuous urban area). Source for this country: a homicide database by canton posted by news portals (Primicias, Investoria), with INEC population projections. Table 1, pp. 7-8; sources and calculations for this country in section 5, from p. 36. 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.	2 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. CCSPJP publishes an 85-page methodology with its city definitions, sources and calculations. No: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Compiled by a Mexican civil-society organisation, not an official statistics office or a peer-reviewed study; it uses official counts where it can and its own estimates elsewhere. Yes: Full count or representative sample. A count of recorded homicides taken from official or published figures. No: Raw data downloadable. Only a PDF report with tables; no data file. No: No known break or quality problem. The interior ministry's open-data pages were down in January 2026, so CCSPJP used a database posted by news portals and judged it consistent with earlier official data.	24%
INEC general death register (EDG), deaths by assaultInstituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, Ecuador (INEC) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-10-26	69.872024	Deaths that occurred in 2024 in the cantons of Durán, Guayaquil and Samborondón, with underlying cause assault (ICD-10 X85-Y09) (2,370), divided by INEC's projected population for 2024 (2024 revision, 3,391,898). 2024 is the latest year published. Raw files: Datos_abiertos_EDG_2024.zip (EDG_2024_CSV.csv, columns causa, cant_fall, anio_fall) and Tabulados_Estimacion_Proyeccion_v2.xlsx, sheet 3.3 (https://www.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/documentos/web-inec/Poblacion_y_Demografia/Proyecciones_Poblacionales/censo_2022/revision_2024_areas/Tabulados_Estimacion_Proyeccion_v2.xlsx).	5 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. INEC publishes the methodology, form and data dictionary for the register. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official statistics from Ecuador's national statistics office. Yes: Full count or representative sample. Full count of deaths registered with the civil registry, not a sample. Yes: Raw data downloadable. Record-level data are a free download; population projections are a free Excel file. Yes: No known break or quality problem. No problem found: 241 deaths of undetermined intent (Y10-Y34) against 2,370 assault deaths.	60%
UNODC Data Portal, victims of intentional homicide, city-level dataUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) · Police and justice recordsRetrieved 2026-10-26	51.822022	Victims of intentional homicide in "Guayaquil" in 2022 (1,437), per 100,000 people, as national authorities reported them to UNODC. UNODC does not say which area the city covers; it is usually the city or municipality proper, not the wider area CCSPJP uses. 2022 is the latest year UNODC shows. Read from the Power BI table on 2026-10-26; values in scripts/most-violent-cities.manual.json, transcript in raw/most-violent-cities/unodc/.	4 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. UNODC publishes the ICCS definition and metadata for its homicide data. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Figures submitted by national authorities through the UN crime trends survey. Yes: Full count or representative sample. A count of recorded victims, not a sample. No: Raw data downloadable. The city table is only shown in an interactive Power BI report; there is no download file. Yes: No known break or quality problem. No problem found.	17%

Homicide rate, Tijuana (Mexico)

Intentional homicide victims per 100,000 residents. Tijuana, Mexico, as CCSPJP delimits it: the municipalities of Tijuana and Playas de Rosarito, Latest year from each source: CCSPJP 2025, INEGI 2024, UNODC 2022. Unit: per 100,000 people.

84.41per 100,000 people, 2025

64Trust scoreModerate certainty

Quality34.2 / 40: How well the sources are made
Agreement0 / 30: How close the sources are to each other
Independence20 / 20: How many separate ways the number was measured
Freshness10 / 10: How recent the newest data is

How much each source counts

CCSPJP14%
INEGI68%
UNODC19%

Sources

Source	Value	Definition	Quality	Weight
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	57.92025	Rank 18 of 50. Intentional homicide victims in 2025 (1,185) divided by 2,046,510 residents, for the city as CCSPJP delimits it (all municipalities that form one continuous urban area). Source for this country: its own estimate: SESNSP counts of case files for each municipality, raised by a correction factor to approximate victims, with its own population estimates. Table 1, pp. 7-8; sources and calculations for this country in section 5, from p. 68. 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.	1 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. CCSPJP publishes an 85-page methodology with its city definitions, sources and calculations. No: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Compiled by a Mexican civil-society organisation, not an official statistics office or a peer-reviewed study; it uses official counts where it can and its own estimates elsewhere. No: Full count or representative sample. An estimate, not a count of recorded victims. No: Raw data downloadable. Only a PDF report with tables; no data file. No: No known break or quality problem. CCSPJP's own estimate, not a count: SESNSP municipal case-file counts multiplied by a factor; its estimates for 2024 were below INEGI's death counts in most cities (report p. 70).	14%
INEGI death statistics (EDR), deaths by assaultInstituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-10-26	84.412024	Deaths registered in 2024 with underlying cause assault (ICD-10 X85-Y09) that occurred in the municipalities of Tijuana and Playas de Rosarito (1,907), as INEGI tabulates homicides by municipality of occurrence, divided by CONAPO's projected mid-year population for 2024 (2,259,194). 2024 is the latest year with definitive microdata. Raw files: conjunto_de_datos_edr2024_csv.zip (counted from the microdata) and pobproy_quinq1.csv from CONAPO (https://www.datos.gob.mx/dataset/proyecciones-de-poblacion/resource/3c3092be-583e-4490-8c23-67ef9a64b198). INEGI's own population estimates are by state only (report 28/26, Tabla 4); CONAPO's municipal projections put Mexico's 2024 population at 132,274,416, 1.7% above INEGI's own estimate (130,047,269), so these rates may be slightly low. Counted by municipality of residence instead, the same deaths number 1,354; many victims have no known residence.	5 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. INEGI publishes the method, ICD-10 coding and a data dictionary with the microdata. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official statistics from Mexico's national statistics office. Yes: Full count or representative sample. Full count of deaths registered by civil registries and forensic services. Yes: Raw data downloadable. Record-level microdata are a free download; CONAPO's population file is a free CSV. Yes: No known break or quality problem. No problem found: 458 deaths of undetermined intent (Y10-Y34) against 1,907 assault deaths.	68%
UNODC Data Portal, victims of intentional homicide, city-level dataUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) · Police and justice recordsRetrieved 2026-10-26	125.392022	Victims of intentional homicide in "Tijuana" in 2022 (2,307), per 100,000 people, as national authorities reported them to UNODC. UNODC does not say which area the city covers; it is usually the city or municipality proper, not the wider area CCSPJP uses. 2022 is the latest year UNODC shows. Read from the Power BI table on 2026-10-26; values in scripts/most-violent-cities.manual.json, transcript in raw/most-violent-cities/unodc/.	4 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. UNODC publishes the ICCS definition and metadata for its homicide data. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Figures submitted by national authorities through the UN crime trends survey. Yes: Full count or representative sample. A count of recorded victims, not a sample. No: Raw data downloadable. The city table is only shown in an interactive Power BI report; there is no download file. Yes: No known break or quality problem. No problem found.	19%

Homicide rate, León (Mexico)

Intentional homicide victims per 100,000 residents. León, Mexico, as CCSPJP delimits it: the municipalities of León, San Francisco del Rincón and Silao de la Victoria, Latest year from each source: CCSPJP 2025, INEGI 2024, UNODC 2022. Unit: per 100,000 people.

50.29per 100,000 people, 2025

63Trust scoreModerate certainty

Quality33.1 / 40: How well the sources are made
Agreement0 / 30: How close the sources are to each other
Independence20 / 20: How many separate ways the number was measured
Freshness10 / 10: How recent the newest data is

How much each source counts

CCSPJP14%
INEGI71%
UNODC15%

Sources

Source	Value	Definition	Quality	Weight
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	29.792025	Rank 50 of 50. Intentional homicide victims in 2025 (624) divided by 2,096,556 residents, for the city as CCSPJP delimits it (all municipalities that form one continuous urban area). Source for this country: its own estimate: SESNSP counts of case files for each municipality, raised by a correction factor to approximate victims, with its own population estimates. Table 1, pp. 7-8; sources and calculations for this country in section 5, from p. 68. The published rate differs slightly from the published count divided by the published population (29.76), as CCSPJP shows its estimated counts rounded; the published rate is used. 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.	1 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. CCSPJP publishes an 85-page methodology with its city definitions, sources and calculations. No: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Compiled by a Mexican civil-society organisation, not an official statistics office or a peer-reviewed study; it uses official counts where it can and its own estimates elsewhere. No: Full count or representative sample. An estimate, not a count of recorded victims. No: Raw data downloadable. Only a PDF report with tables; no data file. No: No known break or quality problem. CCSPJP's own estimate, not a count: SESNSP municipal case-file counts multiplied by a factor; its estimates for 2024 were below INEGI's death counts in most cities (report p. 70).	14%
INEGI death statistics (EDR), deaths by assaultInstituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-10-26	50.292024	Deaths registered in 2024 with underlying cause assault (ICD-10 X85-Y09) that occurred in the municipalities of León, San Francisco del Rincón and Silao de la Victoria (1,111), as INEGI tabulates homicides by municipality of occurrence, divided by CONAPO's projected mid-year population for 2024 (2,209,184). 2024 is the latest year with definitive microdata. Raw files: conjunto_de_datos_edr2024_csv.zip (counted from the microdata) and pobproy_quinq1.csv from CONAPO (https://www.datos.gob.mx/dataset/proyecciones-de-poblacion/resource/3c3092be-583e-4490-8c23-67ef9a64b198). INEGI's own population estimates are by state only (report 28/26, Tabla 4); CONAPO's municipal projections put Mexico's 2024 population at 132,274,416, 1.7% above INEGI's own estimate (130,047,269), so these rates may be slightly low. Counted by municipality of residence instead, the same deaths number 1,048; many victims have no known residence.	5 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. INEGI publishes the method, ICD-10 coding and a data dictionary with the microdata. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official statistics from Mexico's national statistics office. Yes: Full count or representative sample. Full count of deaths registered by civil registries and forensic services. Yes: Raw data downloadable. Record-level microdata are a free download; CONAPO's population file is a free CSV. Yes: No known break or quality problem. No problem found: 94 deaths of undetermined intent (Y10-Y34) against 1,111 assault deaths.	71%
UNODC Data Portal, victims of intentional homicide, city-level dataUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) · Police and justice recordsRetrieved 2026-10-26	10.952022	Victims of intentional homicide in "León" in 2022 (187), per 100,000 people, as national authorities reported them to UNODC. UNODC does not say which area the city covers; it is usually the city or municipality proper, not the wider area CCSPJP uses. 2022 is the latest year UNODC shows. Read from the Power BI table on 2026-10-26; values in scripts/most-violent-cities.manual.json, transcript in raw/most-violent-cities/unodc/.	3 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. UNODC publishes the ICCS definition and metadata for its homicide data. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Figures submitted by national authorities through the UN crime trends survey. Yes: Full count or representative sample. A count of recorded victims, not a sample. No: Raw data downloadable. The city table is only shown in an interactive Power BI report; there is no download file. No: No known break or quality problem. UNODC's 2022 count (187) is far from INEGI's death count for the municipality of León in the same year (812), computed from INEGI's microdata.	15%

Homicide rate, Babahoyo (Ecuador)

Intentional homicide victims per 100,000 residents. Babahoyo, Ecuador, as CCSPJP delimits it: the cantons of Babahoyo, Puebloviejo and Ventanas, Latest year from each source: CCSPJP 2025, INEC 2024. Unit: per 100,000 people.

116.93per 100,000 people, 2025

64Trust scoreModerate certainty

Quality33.1 / 40: How well the sources are made
Agreement4.8 / 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

How much each source counts

CCSPJP29%
INEC71%

Sources

Source	Value	Definition	Quality	Weight
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	166.022025	Rank 2 of 50. Intentional homicide victims in 2025 (527) divided by 317,436 residents, for the city as CCSPJP delimits it (all municipalities that form one continuous urban area). Source for this country: a homicide database by canton posted by news portals (Primicias, Investoria), with INEC population projections. Table 1, pp. 7-8; sources and calculations for this country in section 5, from p. 36. 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.	2 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. CCSPJP publishes an 85-page methodology with its city definitions, sources and calculations. No: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Compiled by a Mexican civil-society organisation, not an official statistics office or a peer-reviewed study; it uses official counts where it can and its own estimates elsewhere. Yes: Full count or representative sample. A count of recorded homicides taken from official or published figures. No: Raw data downloadable. Only a PDF report with tables; no data file. No: No known break or quality problem. The interior ministry's open-data pages were down in January 2026, so CCSPJP used a database posted by news portals and judged it consistent with earlier official data.	29%
INEC general death register (EDG), deaths by assaultInstituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, Ecuador (INEC) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-10-26	116.932024	Deaths that occurred in 2024 in the cantons of Babahoyo, Puebloviejo and Ventanas, with underlying cause assault (ICD-10 X85-Y09) (370), divided by INEC's projected population for 2024 (2024 revision, 316,421). 2024 is the latest year published. Raw files: Datos_abiertos_EDG_2024.zip (EDG_2024_CSV.csv, columns causa, cant_fall, anio_fall) and Tabulados_Estimacion_Proyeccion_v2.xlsx, sheet 3.3 (https://www.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/documentos/web-inec/Poblacion_y_Demografia/Proyecciones_Poblacionales/censo_2022/revision_2024_areas/Tabulados_Estimacion_Proyeccion_v2.xlsx).	5 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. INEC publishes the methodology, form and data dictionary for the register. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official statistics from Ecuador's national statistics office. Yes: Full count or representative sample. Full count of deaths registered with the civil registry, not a sample. Yes: Raw data downloadable. Record-level data are a free download; population projections are a free Excel file. Yes: No known break or quality problem. No problem found: 18 deaths of undetermined intent (Y10-Y34) against 370 assault deaths.	71%

Homicide rate, Machala (Ecuador)

Intentional homicide victims per 100,000 residents. Machala, Ecuador, as CCSPJP delimits it: the cantons of Arenillas, El Guabo, Machala, Pasaje and Santa Rosa, Latest year from each source: CCSPJP 2025, INEC 2024. Unit: per 100,000 people.

88.65per 100,000 people, 2025

70Trust scoreModerate certainty

Quality33.1 / 40: How well the sources are made
Agreement11 / 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

How much each source counts

CCSPJP29%
INEC71%

Sources

Source	Value	Definition	Quality	Weight
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	116.652025	Rank 4 of 50. Intentional homicide victims in 2025 (693) divided by 594,081 residents, for the city as CCSPJP delimits it (all municipalities that form one continuous urban area). Source for this country: a homicide database by canton posted by news portals (Primicias, Investoria), with INEC population projections. Table 1, pp. 7-8; sources and calculations for this country in section 5, from p. 36. 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.	2 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. CCSPJP publishes an 85-page methodology with its city definitions, sources and calculations. No: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Compiled by a Mexican civil-society organisation, not an official statistics office or a peer-reviewed study; it uses official counts where it can and its own estimates elsewhere. Yes: Full count or representative sample. A count of recorded homicides taken from official or published figures. No: Raw data downloadable. Only a PDF report with tables; no data file. No: No known break or quality problem. The interior ministry's open-data pages were down in January 2026, so CCSPJP used a database posted by news portals and judged it consistent with earlier official data.	29%
INEC general death register (EDG), deaths by assaultInstituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, Ecuador (INEC) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-10-26	88.652024	Deaths that occurred in 2024 in the cantons of Arenillas, El Guabo, Machala, Pasaje and Santa Rosa, with underlying cause assault (ICD-10 X85-Y09) (523), divided by INEC's projected population for 2024 (2024 revision, 589,948). 2024 is the latest year published. Raw files: Datos_abiertos_EDG_2024.zip (EDG_2024_CSV.csv, columns causa, cant_fall, anio_fall) and Tabulados_Estimacion_Proyeccion_v2.xlsx, sheet 3.3 (https://www.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/documentos/web-inec/Poblacion_y_Demografia/Proyecciones_Poblacionales/censo_2022/revision_2024_areas/Tabulados_Estimacion_Proyeccion_v2.xlsx).	5 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. INEC publishes the methodology, form and data dictionary for the register. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official statistics from Ecuador's national statistics office. Yes: Full count or representative sample. Full count of deaths registered with the civil registry, not a sample. Yes: Raw data downloadable. Record-level data are a free download; population projections are a free Excel file. Yes: No known break or quality problem. No problem found: 5 deaths of undetermined intent (Y10-Y34) against 523 assault deaths.	71%

Homicide rate, Quevedo (Ecuador)

Intentional homicide victims per 100,000 residents. Quevedo, Ecuador, as CCSPJP delimits it: the cantons of Quevedo, Buena Fe and El Empalme, Latest year from each source: CCSPJP 2025, INEC 2024. Unit: per 100,000 people.

65.2per 100,000 people, 2025

59Trust scoreLow certainty

Quality33.1 / 40: How well the sources are made
Agreement0 / 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

How much each source counts

CCSPJP29%
INEC71%

Sources

Source	Value	Definition	Quality	Weight
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	109.012025	Rank 5 of 50. Intentional homicide victims in 2025 (433) divided by 397,226 residents, for the city as CCSPJP delimits it (all municipalities that form one continuous urban area). Source for this country: a homicide database by canton posted by news portals (Primicias, Investoria), with INEC population projections. Table 1, pp. 7-8; sources and calculations for this country in section 5, from p. 36. 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.	2 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. CCSPJP publishes an 85-page methodology with its city definitions, sources and calculations. No: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Compiled by a Mexican civil-society organisation, not an official statistics office or a peer-reviewed study; it uses official counts where it can and its own estimates elsewhere. Yes: Full count or representative sample. A count of recorded homicides taken from official or published figures. No: Raw data downloadable. Only a PDF report with tables; no data file. No: No known break or quality problem. The interior ministry's open-data pages were down in January 2026, so CCSPJP used a database posted by news portals and judged it consistent with earlier official data.	29%
INEC general death register (EDG), deaths by assaultInstituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, Ecuador (INEC) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-10-26	65.22024	Deaths that occurred in 2024 in the cantons of Quevedo, Buena Fe and El Empalme, with underlying cause assault (ICD-10 X85-Y09) (257), divided by INEC's projected population for 2024 (2024 revision, 394,202). 2024 is the latest year published. Raw files: Datos_abiertos_EDG_2024.zip (EDG_2024_CSV.csv, columns causa, cant_fall, anio_fall) and Tabulados_Estimacion_Proyeccion_v2.xlsx, sheet 3.3 (https://www.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/documentos/web-inec/Poblacion_y_Demografia/Proyecciones_Poblacionales/censo_2022/revision_2024_areas/Tabulados_Estimacion_Proyeccion_v2.xlsx).	5 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. INEC publishes the methodology, form and data dictionary for the register. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official statistics from Ecuador's national statistics office. Yes: Full count or representative sample. Full count of deaths registered with the civil registry, not a sample. Yes: Raw data downloadable. Record-level data are a free download; population projections are a free Excel file. Yes: No known break or quality problem. No problem found: 27 deaths of undetermined intent (Y10-Y34) against 257 assault deaths.	71%

Homicide rate, Culiacán (Mexico)

Intentional homicide victims per 100,000 residents. Culiacán, Mexico, as CCSPJP delimits it: the municipality of Culiacán, Latest year from each source: CCSPJP 2025, INEGI 2024. Unit: per 100,000 people.

60.1per 100,000 people, 2025

61Trust scoreModerate certainty

Quality34.7 / 40: How well the sources are made
Agreement0 / 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

How much each source counts

CCSPJP17%
INEGI83%

Sources

Source	Value	Definition	Quality	Weight
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	103.912025	Rank 6 of 50. Intentional homicide victims in 2025 (1,086) divided by 1,045,017 residents, for the city as CCSPJP delimits it (all municipalities that form one continuous urban area). Source for this country: its own estimate: SESNSP counts of case files for each municipality, raised by a correction factor to approximate victims, with its own population estimates. Table 1, pp. 7-8; sources and calculations for this country in section 5, from p. 68. The published rate differs slightly from the published count divided by the published population (103.92), as CCSPJP shows its estimated counts rounded; the published rate is used. 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.	1 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. CCSPJP publishes an 85-page methodology with its city definitions, sources and calculations. No: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Compiled by a Mexican civil-society organisation, not an official statistics office or a peer-reviewed study; it uses official counts where it can and its own estimates elsewhere. No: Full count or representative sample. An estimate, not a count of recorded victims. No: Raw data downloadable. Only a PDF report with tables; no data file. No: No known break or quality problem. CCSPJP's own estimate, not a count: SESNSP municipal case-file counts multiplied by a factor; its estimates for 2024 were below INEGI's death counts in most cities (report p. 70).	17%
INEGI death statistics (EDR), deaths by assaultInstituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-10-26	60.12024	Deaths registered in 2024 with underlying cause assault (ICD-10 X85-Y09) that occurred in the municipality of Culiacán (647), as INEGI tabulates homicides by municipality of occurrence, divided by CONAPO's projected mid-year population for 2024 (1,076,523). 2024 is the latest year with definitive microdata. Raw files: conjunto_de_datos_edr2024_csv.zip (counted from the microdata) and pobproy_quinq1.csv from CONAPO (https://www.datos.gob.mx/dataset/proyecciones-de-poblacion/resource/3c3092be-583e-4490-8c23-67ef9a64b198). INEGI's own population estimates are by state only (report 28/26, Tabla 4); CONAPO's municipal projections put Mexico's 2024 population at 132,274,416, 1.7% above INEGI's own estimate (130,047,269), so these rates may be slightly low. Counted by municipality of residence instead, the same deaths number 481; many victims have no known residence.	5 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. INEGI publishes the method, ICD-10 coding and a data dictionary with the microdata. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official statistics from Mexico's national statistics office. Yes: Full count or representative sample. Full count of deaths registered by civil registries and forensic services. Yes: Raw data downloadable. Record-level microdata are a free download; CONAPO's population file is a free CSV. Yes: No known break or quality problem. No problem found: 15 deaths of undetermined intent (Y10-Y34) against 647 assault deaths.	83%

Homicide rate, Manabí Centro (Ecuador)

Intentional homicide victims per 100,000 residents. Manabí Centro (Manta-Portoviejo), Ecuador, as CCSPJP delimits it: the cantons of Jaramijó, Manta, Montecristi, Portoviejo, Rocafuerte and Santa Ana, Latest year from each source: CCSPJP 2025, INEC 2024. Unit: per 100,000 people.

69.52per 100,000 people, 2025

60Trust scoreModerate certainty

Quality33.1 / 40: How well the sources are made
Agreement0.4 / 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

How much each source counts

CCSPJP29%
INEC71%

Sources

Source	Value	Definition	Quality	Weight
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	103.772025	Rank 7 of 50. Intentional homicide victims in 2025 (911) divided by 877,933 residents, for the city as CCSPJP delimits it (all municipalities that form one continuous urban area). Source for this country: a homicide database by canton posted by news portals (Primicias, Investoria), with INEC population projections. Table 1, pp. 7-8; sources and calculations for this country in section 5, from p. 36. 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.	2 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. CCSPJP publishes an 85-page methodology with its city definitions, sources and calculations. No: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Compiled by a Mexican civil-society organisation, not an official statistics office or a peer-reviewed study; it uses official counts where it can and its own estimates elsewhere. Yes: Full count or representative sample. A count of recorded homicides taken from official or published figures. No: Raw data downloadable. Only a PDF report with tables; no data file. No: No known break or quality problem. The interior ministry's open-data pages were down in January 2026, so CCSPJP used a database posted by news portals and judged it consistent with earlier official data. The ranking table (911 homicides, 877,933 people) does not match the report's own canton table (614 and 867,404, rate 70.79) on p. 42.	29%
INEC general death register (EDG), deaths by assaultInstituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, Ecuador (INEC) · Death and health registersRetrieved 2026-10-26	69.522024	Deaths that occurred in 2024 in the cantons of Jaramijó, Manta, Montecristi, Portoviejo, Rocafuerte and Santa Ana, with underlying cause assault (ICD-10 X85-Y09) (603), divided by INEC's projected population for 2024 (2024 revision, 867,404). 2024 is the latest year published. Raw files: Datos_abiertos_EDG_2024.zip (EDG_2024_CSV.csv, columns causa, cant_fall, anio_fall) and Tabulados_Estimacion_Proyeccion_v2.xlsx, sheet 3.3 (https://www.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/documentos/web-inec/Poblacion_y_Demografia/Proyecciones_Poblacionales/censo_2022/revision_2024_areas/Tabulados_Estimacion_Proyeccion_v2.xlsx).	5 of 5 checks Yes: Method and definitions published. INEC publishes the methodology, form and data dictionary for the register. Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official statistics from Ecuador's national statistics office. Yes: Full count or representative sample. Full count of deaths registered with the civil registry, not a sample. Yes: Raw data downloadable. Record-level data are a free download; population projections are a free Excel file. Yes: No known break or quality problem. No problem found: 67 deaths of undetermined intent (Y10-Y34) against 603 assault deaths.	71%

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Each value links to its source file. Retrieved 2026-10-26. Unit: per 100,000 people. Rates rounded to two decimals.

Acapulco (Mexico)	71.12	–	95.73	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	75Moderate certainty
Babahoyo (Ecuador)	166.02	116.93	–	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	64Moderate certainty
Barranquilla (Colombia)	32.54	–	–	–	31.7	38.85	–	–	2025 / 2024	84High certainty
Buenaventura (Colombia)	44.98	–	–	–	39.45	26.77	–	–	2025 / 2024	73Moderate certainty
Buffalo City (South Africa)	51.99	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2025	47Low certainty
Cali (Colombia)	46.84	–	–	43.32	46.48	42.97	–	–	2025 / 2024 / 2022	91High certainty
Cape Town (South Africa)	68.77	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2025	47Low certainty
Cartagena (Colombia)	37.14	–	–	–	34.95	36.59	–	–	2025 / 2024	93High certainty
Celaya (Mexico)	53.74	–	109.62	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	61Moderate certainty
Chihuahua (Mexico)	34.42	–	47.05	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	75Moderate certainty
Chilpancingo (Mexico)	36.54	–	46.86	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	77Moderate certainty
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico)	60.06	–	77.31	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	77Moderate certainty
Ciudad Obregón (Mexico)	90.81	–	79.56	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	78Moderate certainty
Cleveland (United States)	32.3	–	–	–	–	–	–	28.05	2025	71Moderate certainty
Colima (Mexico)	83.4	–	133.6	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	68Moderate certainty
Cúcuta (Colombia)	41.64	–	–	–	39.3	35.87	–	–	2025 / 2024	91High certainty
Cuernavaca (Mexico)	51.83	–	76.01	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	72Moderate certainty
Culiacán (Mexico)	103.91	–	60.1	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	61Moderate certainty
Durban (South Africa)	57.35	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2025	47Low certainty
Esmeraldas (Ecuador)	90.56	59.52	–	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	59Low certainty
Feira de Santana (Brazil)	37.83	–	–	–	–	–	70.22	–	2025 / 2024	62Moderate certainty
Fortaleza (Brazil)	39.19	–	–	–	–	–	32.03	–	2025 / 2024	71Moderate certainty
Guatemala City (Guatemala)	36.89	–	–	44.7	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2022	68Moderate certainty
Guayaquil (Ecuador)	91.1	69.87	–	51.82	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024 / 2022	63Moderate certainty
Hermosillo (Mexico)	30.11	–	25.94	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	81High certainty
Irapuato (Mexico)	62.02	–	82.89	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	76Moderate certainty
Johannesburg (South Africa)	39.55	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2025	47Low certainty
León (Mexico)	29.79	–	50.29	10.95	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024 / 2022	63Moderate certainty
Maceió (Brazil)	36.08	–	–	–	–	–	44.04	–	2025 / 2024	79Moderate certainty
Machala (Ecuador)	116.65	88.65	–	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	70Moderate certainty
Manabí Centro (Ecuador)	103.77	69.52	–	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	60Moderate certainty
Manzanillo (Mexico)	88.16	–	99.69	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	84High certainty
Memphis (United States)	30.12	–	–	–	–	–	–	30.99	2025	71Moderate certainty
Nelson Mandela Bay (South Africa)	119.81	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2025	47Low certainty
New Orleans (United States)	33.36	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2025	47Low certainty
Palmira (Colombia)	55.67	–	–	–	53.28	39.9	–	–	2025 / 2024	79Moderate certainty
Pereira (Colombia)	40.36	–	–	–	40.25	35.4	–	–	2025 / 2024	88High certainty
Pietermaritzburg (South Africa)	30.77	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2025	47Low certainty
Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago)	45.7	–	–	21.32	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2020	47Low certainty
Port-au-Prince (Haiti)	197.43	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2025	39Very low certainty
Porto Velho (Brazil)	30.07	–	–	–	–	–	38.77	–	2025 / 2024	77Moderate certainty
Quevedo (Ecuador)	109.01	65.2	–	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	59Low certainty
Recife (Brazil)	36.65	–	–	–	–	–	44.91	–	2025 / 2024	79Moderate certainty
Salvador (Brazil)	31.13	–	–	–	–	–	40.59	–	2025 / 2024	76Moderate certainty
Santa Marta (Colombia)	40.39	–	–	–	36.8	44	–	–	2025 / 2024	85High certainty
Santo Domingo (Ecuador)	29.99	12.21	–	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	59Low certainty
Tijuana (Mexico)	57.9	–	84.41	125.39	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024 / 2022	64Moderate certainty
Uruapan (Mexico)	44.08	–	56.49	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	77Moderate certainty
Villahermosa (Mexico)	35.16	–	39.6	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	84High certainty
Zamora (Mexico)	85.37	–	100.05	–	–	–	–	–	2025 / 2024	82High certainty

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)

Context

CCSPJP methodology and ranking for 2025 (85-page PDF, Internet Archive copy). Retrieved 2026-10-26.
CCSPJP press bulletin on the 2025 ranking (Internet Archive copy). Retrieved 2026-10-26.
UNODC Data Portal: victims of intentional homicide, city-level data. Retrieved 2026-10-26.

Considered, not used

News reports on the CCSPJP ranking (for example EFE via Swissinfo, Zeta Tijuana, La Razón): Not used as data. All ranking values come from CCSPJP's own report, read from the Internet Archive copy of its PDF. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
CCSPJP's live website: seguridadjusticiaypaz.org.mx redirects to geoenlace.net, which returned an error page for the site and the report file on 2026-10-26; the Internet Archive copy captured on 11 February 2026 was used. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
SESNSP municipal crime data (Mexico): It counts case files, not victims, by municipality, so it measures a different number; it is the basis of CCSPJP's Mexican estimates. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
Medicina Legal preliminary figures for 2025 (Colombia): Medicina Legal's website refused automated access (HTTP 403), so its definitive 2024 dataset on Colombia's open-data portal was used instead. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
Ecuador interior ministry open data on intentional homicides: The open-data portal returned HTTP 403 (access forbidden); INEC's death register was used as the official line for Ecuador. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
SAPS murder counts by police district (South Africa): SAPS publishes station counts by district for the 2024/25 financial year, but Stats SA serves its district population file only to an interactive browser, so no official rate could be computed for the six South African cities. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
FBI data for New Orleans: The New Orleans Police Department did not report 2024 or 2025 data to the FBI (all months blank in the Crime Data Explorer). (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
Official data for Port-au-Prince, Guatemala City and Port of Spain: No official city-level homicide count was found for Port-au-Prince (the UN figures CCSPJP cites are national or by department); CCSPJP does not say which municipalities its Guatemala City area includes; and Trinidad and Tobago's statistics office publishes only a national population estimate (CCSPJP report, p. 85), so no matching official rate could be built. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
DataSUS SIM data for 2025 (Brazil): TabNet marks 2025 deaths as preliminary, so the final 2024 data were used. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)

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