In 2024, there were nearly 26.20homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in the country, down from a homicide rate of 26.8 a year earlier. Since 2017, when it peaked, the homicide rate in Venezuela has been decreasing year after year.

Falling homicide rate but still higher than the Latin American average The country held the fifth position for the highest homicide rate in Latin America, recording 26.2 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2024, even after experiencing a steady decrease in the rate over the years. In line with this alarming rate, the Venezuelan city of Cumana was ranked as the 11th most dangerous city in the world in 2023, reporting a rate of 62.42. Among these homicide cases, the majority, approximately 5,800, are still under investigation, while the remainder falls into categories of closed cases, those resisting authority, or have been categorized as disappearances, painting a grim picture of the challenges faced in addressing violent crime.

Corruption in Venezuela In the corruption index, which ranges from 0 representing the worst case to 100 signifying no corruption, Venezuela has earned the unfortunate distinction of being the most corrupt country in Latin America, with a meager score of 10 in 2024. Moreover, the estimated corruption control score has been steadily declining, reaching -1.69 in 2024, where lower numbers indicate a higher degree of corruption, painting a worrisome picture. To compound matters, the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing has persistently remained at a high level, recording a score of 7.59 during 2024.

Venezuela VE: Intentional Homicides: Female: per 100,000 Female data was reported at 6.277 Ratio in 2012. This records an increase from the previous number of 5.451 Ratio for 2011. Venezuela VE: Intentional Homicides: Female: per 100,000 Female data is updated yearly, averaging 5.221 Ratio from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2012, with 13 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 6.671 Ratio in 2002 and a record low of 3.891 Ratio in 2001. Venezuela VE: Intentional Homicides: Female: per 100,000 Female data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Venezuela – Table VE.World Bank: Health Statistics. Intentional homicides, female are estimates of unlawful female homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.; ; UN Office on Drugs and Crime's International Homicide Statistics database.; ;

Venezuela crime rate per 100K population for 2021 was 19.31, a 34.4% decline from 2020.

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<li>Venezuela crime rate per 100K population for 2020 was <strong>29.43</strong>, a <strong>28.2% decline</strong> from 2019.</li>
<li>Venezuela crime rate per 100K population for 2019 was <strong>40.98</strong>, a <strong>14.58% decline</strong> from 2017.</li>
<li>Venezuela crime rate per 100K population for 2017 was <strong>47.98</strong>, a <strong>15.26% decline</strong> from 2016.</li>
</ul>Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.

We conducted a cross-sectional, mixed-methods study using a ‘sensemaking’ approach with Spryng.io. Over a 12-week period from January to April 2022, female and male self-identified Venezuelan refugees/migrants, aged 14 and older, were invited to participate. Data was collected in Ecuador (Tulcan, Manta, and Huaquillas), Peru (Tumbes, Lima, and Tacna), and Brazil (Pacaraima, Boa Vista, and Manaus). Although the migration experiences being asked about were those of Venezuelan women and girls, male participants were also included. A convenience sample of potential participants was recruited from public spaces such as border crossings, points of aid distribution, refugee/migrant shelters, markets, and transportation depots, with some snowball sampling in Lima, where refugees are well integrated into the host community and, therefore more difficult to identify. In each of the nine interview locations, we intentionally recruited members of equity-deserving groups, including persons with disabilities, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) individuals, and individuals who identified as Indigenous or of Afro-descent. All data were collected in Spanish confidentially, using the Spryng.io app on handheld tablets. Shared micronarratives were transcribed and translated from Spanish to English. The survey (see Data Codebook) was co-created by the research team in close collaboration with service providers responding to the Venezuelan crisis. It was written in English, translated to Spanish by a professional translator, and then back-translated to confirm accuracy. Discrepancies were resolved by consensus involving a third individual who was also bilingual in Spanish and English. The instrument was pilot-tested with 25 Venezuelan women, and their feedback was used to improve clarity of the language and relevance of the questions.

This dataset is about homicides registered in Venezuela in 2017. The data was extracted from police administrative records and worked by OVV at the county level. The last three columns contains : (1) total murders, (2) homicides with intention, and (3) murders committed by police forces. Homicide with intention is a category defined by the Venezuelan Penal Code (Código Penal Venezolano: CPV). Murders committed by police forces, supposedly occurred in arrest operations and encounters with delinquents. The data covers the whole year.

Historical chart and dataset showing Venezuela murder/homicide rate per 100K population by year from 1990 to 2021.

Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism: Percentile Rank, Upper Bound of 90% Confidence Interval in Venezuela was reported at 16.59 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Venezuela - Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism: Percentile Rank, Upper Bound of 90% Confidence Interval - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

Venezuela VE: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data was reported at 56.333 Ratio in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 61.910 Ratio for 2014. Venezuela VE: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data is updated yearly, averaging 40.847 Ratio from Dec 1995 (Median) to 2016, with 20 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 61.910 Ratio in 2014 and a record low of 18.400 Ratio in 1997. Venezuela VE: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Venezuela – Table VE.World Bank.WDI: Health Statistics. Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.; ; UN Office on Drugs and Crime's International Homicide Statistics database.; Weighted average;

Venezuela VE: Legislation Exists on Domestic Violence: 1=Yes; 0=No data was reported at 1.000 NA in 2017. This stayed constant from the previous number of 1.000 NA for 2015. Venezuela VE: Legislation Exists on Domestic Violence: 1=Yes; 0=No data is updated yearly, averaging 1.000 NA from Dec 2013 (Median) to 2017, with 3 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.000 NA in 2017 and a record low of 1.000 NA in 2017. Venezuela VE: Legislation Exists on Domestic Violence: 1=Yes; 0=No data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Venezuela – Table VE.World Bank.WDI: Policy and Institutions. Legislation exists on domestic violence is whether there is legislation addressing domestic violence: violence between spouses, within the family or members of the same household, or in interpersonal relationships, including intimate partner violence that is subject to criminal sanctions or provides for protection orders for domestic violence, or the legislation addresses “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” or “harassment” that clearly affects physical or mental health, and it is implied that such behavior is considered domestic violence.; ; World Bank: Women, Business and the Law.; ;

Venezuela VE: Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism: Estimate data was reported at -1.180 NA in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of -1.025 NA for 2016. Venezuela VE: Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism: Estimate data is updated yearly, averaging -1.180 NA from Dec 1996 (Median) to 2017, with 19 observations. The data reached an all-time high of -0.535 NA in 1998 and a record low of -1.392 NA in 2004. Venezuela VE: Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism: Estimate data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Venezuela – Table VE.World Bank.WGI: Country Governance Indicators. Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism measures perceptions of the likelihood of political instability and/or politically-motivated violence, including terrorism. Estimate gives the country's score on the aggregate indicator, in units of a standard normal distribution, i.e. ranging from approximately -2.5 to 2.5.

Gender, violence, and migration structurally impact health. The Venezuelan humanitarian crisis comprises the largest transnational migration in the history of the Americas. Colombia, a post-conflict country, is the primary recipient of Venezuelans. The Colombian context imposes high levels of violence on women across migration phases. There is little information on the relationship between violence and HIV risk in the region and how it impacts these groups. Evidence on how to approach the HIV response related to Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis is lacking. Our study seeks to 1) understand how violence is associated with newly reported HIV/AIDS case rates for women in Colombian municipalities; and 2) describe how social violence impacts HIV risk, treatment, and prevention for Venezuelan migrant and refugee women undergoing transnational migration and resettlement in Colombia. We conducted a concurrent mixed-methods design. We used negative binomial models to explore associations between social violence proxied by Homicide Rates (HR) at the municipality level (n = 84). The also conducted 54 semi-structured interviews with Venezuelan migrant and refugee women and key informants in two Colombian cities to expand and describe contextual vulnerabilities to HIV risk, prevention and care related to violence. We found that newly reported HIV cases in women were 25% higher for every increase of 18 homicides per 100,000, after adjusting for covariates. Upon resettlement, participants cited armed actors’ control, lack of government accountability, gender-based violence and stigmatization of HIV as sources of increased HIV risk for VMRW. These factors impose barriers to testing, treatment and care. Social violence in Colombian municipalities is associated with an increase in newly reported HIV/AIDS case rates in women. Violence hinders Venezuelan migrant and refugee women’s access and engagement in available HIV prevention and treatment interventions.

This dataset is about countries per year in Venezuela. It has 64 rows. It features 4 columns: country, forest area, and internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence.

Venezuela VE: Intentional Homicides: Male: per 100,000 Male data was reported at 101.510 Ratio in 2012. This records an increase from the previous number of 90.431 Ratio for 2011. Venezuela VE: Intentional Homicides: Male: per 100,000 Male data is updated yearly, averaging 84.821 Ratio from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2012, with 13 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 101.510 Ratio in 2012 and a record low of 59.724 Ratio in 2001. Venezuela VE: Intentional Homicides: Male: per 100,000 Male data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Venezuela – Table VE.World Bank: Health Statistics. Intentional homicides, male are estimates of unlawful male homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.; ; UN Office on Drugs and Crime's International Homicide Statistics database.; ;

This dataset is about countries per year in Venezuela. It has 64 rows. It features 4 columns: country, internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence, and birth rate.

Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism: Standard Error in Venezuela was reported at 0.2081 in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Venezuela - Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism: Standard Error - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

This dataset is about countries in Venezuela. It has 1 row. It features 5 columns: currency, capital city, continent, and internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence.

We collected Twitter posts that are topically related to three selected elections: the 2015 Venezuela parliamentary election, 2016 Philippines general election and 2016 Ghana general election. Using human annotators and trained classifiers, we built two datasets in tweet-level and incident-level. Tweet-level dataset is consist of annotated tweets, however the incident-level dataset contains grouped tweets and the reported incident details by each group of tweets. Electoral violence is a common theme in developing countries all around the world where they destabilize basic standards for democratic elections. Violence against candidates, voters, journalists and election officials can reduce voters’ choices and suppress the vote. Nowadays, social media platforms such as Twitter are popular as a medium for reporting and discussing current news and events, including political events. In particular, by comparing Twitter and newswire for breaking news, found that Twitter leads newswire in reporting political events. Such a conclusion indicates that Twitter is useful for monitoring and studying political events, including elections. Our datasets enable further electoral violence studies based on social media data, which can provide valuable insights on explaining and mitigating electoral violence.

Elections are a means of adjudicating political differences through peaceful, fair, democratic mechanisms. When elections are beset by violence, these aims are compromised and political crises often result. Despite the undisputed importance of understanding electoral violence, there has been only a limited body of systematic comparative research on this topic. If scholars and practitioners are to gain insight into the dynamics of electoral violence and develop superior strategies for deterring it, better data and more sophisticated theories are required. The aim of this project is to develop conceptual, methodological and practical tools to facilitate an enhanced understanding of electoral violence and the behavioural interventions best suited to preventing it, with a view to sustaining fair and vibrant societies. The project will involve the construction of two databases of electoral violence and will make these data available to those engaged in electoral assistance, electoral administration and electoral observation as well as academic and other researchers. The project will also use the resulting data to develop and test a series of theoretically-driven propositions about the causes of electoral violence and to assess a range of interventions designed to prevent violent behaviours. Finally, the project will generate an online electoral violence early warning tool that can be used to provide relevant information about current electoral risks. The project will be of considerable use both to academic students of election and conflict and to practitioners in the fields of contentious politics, electoral assistance, electoral observation, electoral administration, human rights, international relations, criminology and development studies. Electoral violence is frequently an aspect of contentious politics. Though contentious politics can play an important role in the democratic process, it raises problems for democracy both when it generates violence and when it disrupts key phases of the electoral cycle. Given the centrality of both contentious politics and elections to our understanding of contemporary political processes, this study promises to yield considerable benefits to a wide range of academic fields. In addition to scholars, many actors with a stake in peaceful elections urgently require superior means of averting disruptive forms of violence that threaten political stability, state-building and development. Since the violent interlude that followed the Kenyan elections of 2007, there has been an increased focus on the topic of electoral violence and a heightened sense of urgency in the international community's search for remedies, as exemplified by the 2012 final report of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security, chaired by Kofi Annan. One of the key recommendations of this report was 'to develop institutions, processes, and networks that deter election-related violence and, should deterrence fail, hold perpetrators accountable'. The proposed research is intended to make a substantial contribution towards this aim, which has become all the more urgent following the recent increase in violent behaviours in the Middle East and elsewhere. Finally, the project will innovate methodologically by integrating 'big data' retrieval methods into political science. Political scientists have to date made scant use of the possibilities represented by current data retrieval techniques; by enabling collaboration between political scientists and computer scientists, this project will facilitate the collection of a dataset of unprecedented size in the study of electoral violence, and it will allow...

Rate ratios of the association between municipality homicide rates and municipality HIV rates for women.

Abstract

The Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI) in Peru carried out the Encuesta Dirigida a la Población Venezolana que Reside en el País (ENPOVE) survey between the months of November and December 2018 in order to gain a better understanding of the Venezuelan population residing in Peru.

The survey was carried out in the capital cities in the departments of Tumbes, La Libertad, Lima-Callao, Arequipa and Cusco, which together are home to 85% of the Venezuelan population in the country. The purpose of the survey was to provide reliable data on the living conditions of the Venezuelan population residing in Peru, including: demographic and social aspects, immigration status, discrimination, violence, health, employment, education, access to basic services, housing and home equipment.

The information can be used by international organizations, researchers, and public policy makers to formulate actions, policies, plans, programs, and projects to meet the most urgent needs of this group. The World Bank, UNHCR, IOM, UNFPA and UNICEF provided technical and financial support to the survey.

Geographic coverage

Urban area of capital cities of the regions of Tumbes, La Libertad, Arequipa, Cusco, Lima and Callao.

Analysis unit

Household and individual

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The sampling is probabilistic and stratified. The sampling consists of two stages, the primary sampling unit being the block, which is defined as the urban geographic area delimited by roads. The secondary sampling unit is the dwelling with at least one Venezuelan person that exists within a block. For the households that are finally selected, information is obtained from all the individuals.

The sampling frame for the blocks was constructed as follows: i) The addresses of 58,067 Venezuelan people registered in the 2017 Population and Housing Census were identified. ii) The addresses of 10,076 people were available registered in the registry of Venezuelans who applied for the Temporary Permit of Permanence from the National Superintendency of Migration of the Ministry of the Interior. iii) The blocks containing the addresses of the aforementioned information sources were identified using the Geographic Information System. A global framework of 19,074 blocks was built.

The concept of block used in the survey is a physical area delimited by streets, avenues, roads, canals, etc. easily identifiable and can contain one or more homes, parks, vacant lots, sports fields, etc.

The original design of the sample included the construction of three strata based on the number of dwellings with a Venezuelan population found in each block of the sampling frame: 1 to 5, 6 to 10, greater than 10. On the other hand, the population of the city of Lima was divided into 4 zones with the following districts:

North Lima: Los Olivos, San Martn De Porres, Comas, Carabayllo, Independencia, Puente Piedra East Lima: San Juan De Lurigancho, Ate, Santa Anita, El Agustino, San Luis, La Molina, Lurigancho Downtown Lima: La Victoria, Lima, Santiago De Surco, Surquillo, San Miguel, Brea, Barranco, Rmac, Lince Jesus Maria, Magdalena Del Mar, San Borja South Lima: Chorrillos, San Juan De Miraflores, Villa El Salvador, Villa Mara Del Triunfo, Lurn, Pachacamac

The housing framework was built by means of an exhaustive registry of buildings and dwellings in each of the selected blocks, identifying those places, be they dwellings or establishments, that had a population from Venezuela. The concept of housing for the purposes of the survey included private and collective dwellings (hotels, hostels, lodgings, churches and shelters), where the Venezuelan population is found. This concept is different from the one used in the regular INEI household surveys, which only considers private households with a maximum of 5 households. The concept of the household used was: People, whether or not they are related, who share the main meals and attend to their vital needs in common. This concept is different from that used in the INEI household surveys, where the budget is considered.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism: Percentile Rank, Lower Bound of 90% Confidence Interval in Venezuela was reported at 9.0047 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Venezuela - Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism: Percentile Rank, Lower Bound of 90% Confidence Interval - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.