In 2022, there were 6.38 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in Grenada, up from a homicide rate of 4.01 registered a year earlier. Since the 2010s, the year with the lowest homicide rate was 2011, with around four cases per 100,000 population.

In 2016, the number of murder victims per 100,000 inhabitants in Saint George's, Grenada, amounted to 15.4. The homicide rate in this Caribbean country has grown almost six-fold compared to 2015, when 2.6 murders per 100,000 population were reported. In 2016, the murder rate in the Grenadian capital has increased for the first time since 2012, year in which the highest level of homicides in the past decade was registered, at 18.2 murders per 100,000 people.

Historical chart and dataset showing Grenada murder/homicide rate per 100K population by year from 2000 to 2021.

In 2022, the number of homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in Grenada amounted to 6.38. That year, the number of people murdered in this Caribbean country reached eight, three more than in 2021.

In 2022, Grenada had the highest robbery rate in the Caribbean, with an estimated 2,163 incidents per 100,000 inhabitants. Dominica registered 1,279.95 such crime reports per 100,000 population, ranking second in the region.

Saint Lucia was the country with the highest vehicle theft rate in the Caribbean in 2022. That year, 169.58 car thefts were reported per 100,000 citizens in this island nation. The lowest auto theft rate was recorded in Grenada, at around zero reports per 100,000 inhabitants.

In 2021 there were more than *** rapes per 100,000 population in the Caribbean island of Grenada. However, tracking down truthful rape statistics can be considered challenging since only a small amount of victims chooses to report their aggressions. Moreover, country-to-country comparisons are also difficult, since not all countries agree on the same legislation concerning sexual crimes.

In December of 2020, nine countries in Latin America and the Caribbean had laws that considered private, consensual sexual acts between adults of the same sex a crime or illegal.

Which countries in the Caribbean criminalize same-sex relations? Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Lucia categorize consensual sexual acts between adults of the same sex either as "buggery" or "gross indecency". In Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Lucia, for instance, only homosexual relations between men are considered illegal. Despite this, Latin America and the Caribbean shows a generally high level of LGBT-friendliness toward consensual same-sex acts.

Where was same-sex intercourse first legalized in the region? Haiti has the oldest legal framework that did not criminalize homosexual relations in Latin America and the Caribbean, dating back to 1791, when it was still under French rule. This makes it one of the first countries in the world to not consider same-sex intercourse a crime. Other pioneering countries on the matter were the Dominican Republic and El Salvador, whose laws did not consider same-sex sexual acts a crime since the 1820s.