The new Homicide Monitor, launched by Brazil’s Igarapé Institute, contains a familiar happy story: the decline of murder in the developed world. In 18 European countries, fewer than one person in 100,000 was murdered in 2012, says the monitor. These are around the lowest rates in recorded history. The most murderous regions today are Latin America and the Caribbean. But intriguingly, some of Latin America’s more developed cities are joining the rich world’s trend towards peacefulness. Rio de Janeiro’s homicide rate fell nearly two-thirds from 2002 to 2012. São Paulo’s dropped 80 per cent from 2000 to 2010.
巴西Igarapé Institute发布的新一期“谋杀监测”(Homicide Monitor)包含着一个常见的好消息：发达国家谋杀率降低。该指标显示，2012年，欧洲18个国家的谋杀率均低于十万分之一。这是有记录以来的最低水平。如今谋杀率最高的地区是拉美和加勒比海地区。但有趣的是，一些拉美较发达城市正加入富国的行列变得安全。2002年至2012年，里约热内卢的谋杀率下降近三分之二。2000年至2010年，圣保罗谋杀率下降80%。