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Brazil reports one homicide every 9 minutes in 2014

Xinhua, October 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

Brazil registered one homicide every nine minutes in 2014, amid a total of 58,559 violent deaths, according to results of a study published Thursday by the Brazilian Public Safety Forum.

The average homicide rate rose from 27.8 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2013 to 28.9 in 2014, the year Brazil hosted the world's largest football event World Cup, which drew tens of thousands of tourists from around the globe, the study said.

Brazil's northeast state of Alagoas remained at the top of the list, with 66.5 homicides per 100,000 people, while Sao Paulo in the southeast, the richest and most populous state, had the lowest rate, with 12.7 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.

The homicide rate labeled Brazil as a zone of endemic violence, as the World Health Organization classifies any rate over 10 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants as being endemic. All of Brazil's 27 states fell into that category.

In 2014, only one-third of Brazilian states saw a drop in homicides compared with 2013, including Roraima, Alagoas, Paraiba, Minas Gerais, Acre, the Federal District, Parana, Espirito Santo and Goias. Endi