| Year | # of Murders |
| 1970 | 152 |
| 1971 | 145 |
| 1972 | 170 |
| 1973 | 227 |
| 1974 | 195 |
| 1975 | 266 |
| 1976 | 367 |
| 1977 | 409 |
| 1978 | 381 |
| 1979 | 351 |
| 1980 | 899 |
| 1981 | 490 |
| 1982 | 405 |
| 1983 | 424 |
| 1984 | 484 |
| 1986 | 449 |
| 1987 | 442 |
| 1988 | 414 |
| 1989 | 439 |
| 1990 | 543 |
| 1991 | 561 |
| 1992 | 629 |
| 1994 | 690 |
| 1995 | 780 |
| 1998 | 953 |
| 1999 | 849 |
| 2000 | 887 |
| 2002 | 1045 |
| 2003 | 975 |
| 2004 | 1471 |
| 2005 | 1674 |
| 2006 | 1340 |
| 2007 | 1574 |
| 2008 | 1601 |
| 2009 | 1680 |
| 2010 | 1428 |
| 2011 | 1125 |
| 2012 | 1097 |
| 2013 | 1200 |
| 2014 | 1005 |
| 2015 | 1192 |
| 2016 | 1350 |
I always say let’s the statistics speak for itself.
For sure we are a murderous nation, with 12 dead in three days.
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Could you give a source
The daily papers going back year after year. I compiled the data from that
Great job. Where is the stats for 2001?
I could not find it
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Honestly it’s a dam shame on how people’s dont have the sense of reasoning death is answer in most case l can relate to some of those situation on jamaica on necessary killings
I remember when our murder rate was more or less steady at 400-500 per year during the 80s and early 90s. This rate began to increase steadily as the economy began unravelling after liberalization and the removal of exchange rate control and price control. This led to a rapid devaluation of the Jamaican dollar, high prices and eventually high interest rates. Businesses collapsed, banks and the agricultural sector tanked, leading to the establishment of FINSAC. The destruction of the economy saw a concomitant increase in crime, including murders. It is not difficult to imagine that ripping 40,000 businesses (employing possibly an average of 250,000 persons) from the economy, could lead to such drastic increases in crime. This horrible event in our economic history was never taken seriously by Jamaicans and as one PNP politician said, “the high interest rate policy has led to the greatest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since the days of slavery”. As businesses closed down and we began exporting less and earning less while importing more to meet our needs, the government turned to selling government paper to finance the budget, thereby increasing our public debt exponentially. Our debt to GDP ratio became huge and as much as 70 cents out of every dollar in the budget was to pay debt to persons rich enough to afford buying these instruments (money moving from the poor to the rich). This kind of policy led to crime and murders moving up by so much in the 1990s to 2000s. Houses became expensive – hence more squatter communities, more people selling on the streets, more drug mules, more scamming etc. Desperation helped to feed crime.