Robbery rate in Rio de Janeiro 2010-2022
The annual robbery rate in the city of Rio de Janeiro has stabilized since 2020, after it more than doubled from roughly 850 robberies per 100,000 inhabitants in 2012 to almost 1,900 in 2017. The sharpest decline in the robbery rate occurred between 2019 and 2020 when it fell from 1.5 thousand to below one thousand thefts, reflecting a decrease of approximately 38 percent. In 2022, the annual robbery rate was 944 thefts per 100 thousands inhabitants, however this still equates to almost one percent of the population being robbed each year.