Worldwide, Brazil reported the highest number of transgender people murdered in 2023, reaching 100 victims. Most of the murders that year were reported in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is assumed that only a minority of the cases actually are reported, and the actual number is estimated to be significantly higher.

A research project developed by the Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM) revealed that at least 235 trans or gender-diverse people were murdered in Latin America from October 2022 to September 2023. The highest number of victims was reported in Brazil, with 100 homicides. Mexico was the second deadliest country for trans people in Latin America, having registered 52 murders in the same period.

From the fiscal year of 2016 to the fiscal year of 2024, at least 1,170 trans and gender-diverse people were murdered in Brazil. The highest number of victims was registered in the fiscal year of 2017 when 171 victims were reported. In 2024, there were 106 murders.

As of September 30, 29 transgender and gender-diverse people were murdered in the United States in 2024. This is a slight decrease from the previous year, when 35 transgender and gender-diverse people were murdered.

Between October 2022 and September 2023, at least 52 trans or gender-diverse people were murdered in Mexico. Mexico ranked as the second country with the highest number of murders of trans people in Latin America during that same period of time.

A worldwide project started in April 2009 called the Transgender Murder Monitoring Project (TMM) reported that 180 killings occurred between November 2009 and November 2010. Since January 2008, a total of 487 transgender people have been reported murdered. The TMM 2010 report broke down the murders in 19 countries. The majority happened in Brazil (91), Guatemala (15), Mexico (14), and the USA (14). (Source: Transgender Murder Monitoring Project. Regionally, the Belizean transgendered community has been continuously overlooked; they are invisible in the National Strategic Plan of 2006-2011. Funding received by the country for HIV/AIDS and outreach programs rarely reaches the transgender community because the system does not see the population as sufficiently large enough to make investments.The purpose of the research is to create a profile of transgender needs in the Belizean context; this report will feed into a larger effort for a region-wide advocacy plan that will be implemented by CRTA. The significance of the effort may lead to future planning around resource mobilization, capacity building and advocacy.

Since 2010, the number of reported cases of homicides of transgender people worldwide increased from below 180 to more than 320 in 2023. It is assumed that only a minority of the cases actually are reported, and the actual number is estimated to be significantly higher.

According to the source, 235 trans and gender-diverse people were reported murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean between October 2022 and September 2023. As of September 2018, a total of 219 murders had been reported in the region. Between 2011 and 2020, the number of murders stood above 200 every year.

Latin America and the Caribbean was, by far, the world region reporting the highest number of murders of transgender people worldwide in 2023. It is assumed that only a minority of trans people murdered are actually recorded as such, and the actual number is estimated to be significantly higher.

78 of the recorded 321 transgender people murdered worldwide in 2023 were sex workers. The occupation of almost 160 of the victims was unknown. It is assumed that only a minority of the cases actually are reported, and the actual number is estimated to be significantly higher.

In 2022, around 80 percent of transgender people in the United States had considered suicide, while around 40 percent had attempted suicide. There has been an upward trend in both the considered and attempted suicide rate since 2000, when 61 percent of transgender people considered committing suicide and 28 percent had attempted it.

Worldwide, 64 countries criminalize homosexuality as of 2024. Most of them are located in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. In 12 countries, the death penalty is imposed or at least a possibility for private, consensual same-sex sexual activity. These countries are Iran, Northern Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Brunei, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Uganda.

In 2023, there were 14,327 murder offenders in the United States who were male, in comparison to 1,898 who were female. However, there were also 5,279 murder offenders where their gender was unknown. Homicides in the U.S. Murder and non-negligent manslaughter in the United States is defined as the willful killing of another human being. Justifiable homicides, or cases where a felon is killed by an officer in the line of duty or a felon is killed during a felony by a private citizen, are not included in murder counts by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The total number of murders varies from state to state in the U.S., with more populous states having higher numbers of murders. Murder offenders and victims Most murder offenders in the United States are between the ages of 17 and 39, with the number of offenders declining steadily after age 40. Additionally, the highest rate of death by homicide was found among males between the ages of 15 and 24. The highest rate of death by homicide for females was for girls under the age of one.

In 2022, 31 of the 35 murder offenders in Norway were men. Between 2012 and 2022, there were constantly significantly more male murder offenders than female. On the other hand, the gender of the victims was more evenly divided.

Of the 570 recorded homicides in England and Wales in 2023/24, 414 of the victims were male, and 156 victims were female. Although the majority of homicide victims are men, they are also responsible for far more homicides than females are, with the vast majority of homicide suspects being male in England and Wales.

More men than women are victims of homicide in Sweden. The number of men who were killed in violent crimes increased from 2012 to 2015, but has remained more stable since. Meanwhile, the number of female homicide victims was usually between 25 and 30 during the past decade. In 2022, 93 men and 23 women were confirmed as homicide victims in Sweden. Compared to other European countries, Sweden's homicide rate was around the average.

Russia's female homicide rate was slightly below four crimes per 100 thousand population in 2019, marking a decline from 2015. That was more than three times lower than the number of male homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants. The total homicide rate in the country reached 4.7 per 100 thousand people in 2020.

Since the 1950s, the suicide rate in the United States has been significantly higher among men than women. In 2022, the suicide rate among men was almost four times higher than that of women. However, the rate of suicide for both men and women has increased gradually over the past couple of decades. Facts on suicide in the United States In 2022, the rate of suicide death in the United States was around 14 per 100,000 population. The suicide rate in the U.S. has generally increased since the year 2000, with the highest rates ever recorded in the years 2018 and 2022. In the United States, death rates from suicide are highest among those aged 45 to 64 years and lowest among younger adults aged 15 to 24. The states with the highest rates of suicide are Montana, Alaska, and Wyoming, while New Jersey and Massachusetts have the lowest rates. Suicide among men In 2023, around 4.5 percent of men in the United States reported having serious thoughts of suicide in the past year. Although this rate is lower than that of women, men still have a higher rate of suicide death than women. One reason for this may have to do with the method of suicide. Although firearms account for the largest share of suicide deaths among both men and women, firearms account for almost 60 percent of all suicides among men and just 35 percent among women. Suffocation and poisoning are the other most common methods of suicide among women, with the chances of surviving a suicide attempt from these methods being much higher than surviving an attempt by firearm. The age group with the highest rate of suicide death among men is by far those aged 75 years and over.