Brazil Posts Record Homicide Toll for 2016: More than sixty-one thousand people were murdered in Brazil last year (LAHT), according to data from the nongovernmental Brazilian Public Safety Forum. The total, up 4 percent from 2015, is Brazil's highest on record.

RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil in 2016 registered a record 61,619 murders, the largest yearly total in the country’s history and an average of 168 per day or 7 per hour, according to figures released Monday by the non-governmental Brazilian Public Safety Forum.

The number of murders in 2016 was up by 3.8 percent over the total the year before, according to the NGO, which has specialized in studies of violence in Brazil relying on official figures compiled by the authorities.

Brazil Posts Record Homicide Toll for 2016: More than sixty-one thousand people were murdered in Brazil last year (LAHT), according to data from the nongovernmental Brazilian Public Safety Forum. The total, up 4 percent from 2015, is Brazil's highest on record.

RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil in 2016 registered a record 61,619 murders, the largest yearly total in the country’s history and an average of 168 per day or 7 per hour, according to figures released Monday by the non-governmental Brazilian Public Safety Forum.

The number of murders in 2016 was up by 3.8 percent over the total the year before, according to the NGO, which has specialized in studies of violence in Brazil relying on official figures compiled by the authorities.