At least 2.5 million people have been murdered in Latin America in Just sixteen years (between 2000 and 2016), representing 33 percent of the world's homicides-despite having only 8 percent of its population, a report by the Brazilian Igarapé Institute has revealed. The report called the region of the Caribbean, Central and South America, the "world's most homicidal" place. 

See "Citizen Security in Latin America: Facts and Figures," Igarapé Institute, April 26, 2018.