Homicide rate in Paraguay
Paraguay: Homicide rate was 6.78 homicides per 100,000 population in 2023. ▼ Falling
Homicide rate in Paraguay, 2000–2023
Source: UN, World Population Prospects (2024); United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. Measured in homicides per 100,000 population.
Analysis
In 2023, homicide rate in Paraguay stood at 6.78 homicides per 100,000 population. That is the lowest value across all 24 years on record.
That represents a change of down 10.5% on the previous year and down 32.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, homicide rate in Paraguay peaked at 26.08 homicides per 100,000 population in 2002 and was at its lowest, 6.78 homicides per 100,000 population, in 2023.
Paraguay ranks 48th of 179 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 24 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 19.06 homicides per 100,000 population | 13.48 homicides per 100,000 population | 26.08 homicides per 100,000 population | 10 |
| 2010s | 10.03 homicides per 100,000 population | 7.73 homicides per 100,000 population | 12.91 homicides per 100,000 population | 10 |
| 2020s | 7.37 homicides per 100,000 population | 6.78 homicides per 100,000 population | 7.85 homicides per 100,000 population | 4 |
Countries ranked near Paraguay
- 45 Barbados 7.44 homicides per 100,000 population compare
- 46 Kiribati 7.12 homicides per 100,000 population compare
- 47 Cape Verde 6.99 homicides per 100,000 population compare
- 49 Cameroon 6.76 homicides per 100,000 population compare
- 50 Zimbabwe 6.76 homicides per 100,000 population compare
- 51 Suriname 6.52 homicides per 100,000 population compare
More social development data for Paraguay
- Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of asy 4,621 (2025)
- Refugees under the mandate of the UNHCR by country or territory of ori 162 (2025)
- Electoral democracy 1 (2025)
- Political Rights Rating 3 (2025)
- Freedom of Association Index 0.8 (2025)
- Human Rights Index 0.805 (2025)
- Liberal Democracy Index 0.376 (2025)
- Electoral democracy 2 (2025)
- Participatory Democracy Index 0.342 (2025)
- Key features of human rights 0.805 (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is homicide rate in Paraguay?
- Homicide rate in Paraguay was 6.78 homicides per 100,000 population in 2023, according to UN, World Population Prospects (2024); United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest homicide rate recorded in Paraguay?
- The highest recorded value was 26.08 homicides per 100,000 population in 2002.
- What is the lowest homicide rate recorded in Paraguay?
- The lowest recorded value was 6.78 homicides per 100,000 population in 2023.
- How does Paraguay rank for homicide rate?
- Paraguay ranks 48th out of 179 countries with data for 2023.
- Is homicide rate rising or falling in Paraguay?
- Over the last ten years it is down 32.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Paraguay data come from?
- The figures come from UN, World Population Prospects (2024); United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Homicide rate. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Intentional homicide rate per 100,000 population.