The Director of the OIJ (Costa Rica’s FBI equivalent), Jorge Rojas just spoke about the crime rate in Costa Rica, stating that, "There are significant downward trends. It is important that citizens know this even though there is a widespread belief that crime is rising,"
The statistics vary minimally, depending upon the source, however across the reports Costa Rica remains the safest country in all of Central America.
Below are the statistics for the Central American Countries with regard to homicide:
- El Salvador has a homicide rate in 2009 of 76 per 100,000 inhabitants
- Honduras has a homicide rate in 2009 of 66.8 per 100,000
- Guatemala has a homicide rate in 2009 of 48 per 100,000
- Panama has a homicide rate in 2009 of 24 per 100,000
- Nicaragua has a homicide rate in 2009 of 13 per 100,000
- Costa Rica had a total of 494 homicides for a homicide rate in 2009 of 11 per 100,000 and only 10.65 in 2010
As Costa Rica Condos Expert I am little confuse about statistics for the Central American Countries with regard to homicide.
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