Brazil kills 66 young people every day between the ages of 15 and 29, according to the Atlas of Violence 2023, produced by the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) and the Brazilian Public Security Forum (FBSP) and released this Tuesday (5).
Estimated based on data from the Ministry of Health from 2021, the average exposes the social drama caused by the murders in Brazil and allows us to calculate their economic impacts: taking the 2022 GDP as a reference, these deaths represent losses of R$150 billion per year per year. country.
The Violence Atlas points out that, of the 47,847 homicides officially registered in Brazil in 2021, more than half (50.6%) victimized young people aged 15 to 29, totaling 24,217 people.
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Of every 100 Brazilians in this age group who lost their lives, 49 were victims of lethal violence – that is, they would be alive if they had been born in a less violent country or if Brazil had overcome the public security crisis.
Amapá, Bahia, Amazonas, Ceará and Alagoas are the five states that recorded the most violent deaths per 100 thousand young people. At the other end, São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Distrito Federal, Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul are the least dangerous federative units for Brazilian men and women aged 15 to 29.
Despite the severity of the situation, the Atlas points out some advances in the comparison between 2021 and 2020. There was a 6.2% drop in the absolute number of homicides among young people, but the rate remains at 49 for every 100 thousand people in this age group.
The reduction has been recorded since 2017, the year in which Brazil recorded the peak of lethal violence.
Of the 27 federative units, 18 managed to reduce the number of murders of young people aged 15 to 29. Once again, however, important states in the North region, such as Rondônia and Amazonas, go against the trend and raised their rates in 2021.
Source: CNN Brasil
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