The Most Dangerous Cities on Earth
The Most Dangerous Cities on Earth
The following most dangerous cities on Earth had the highest homicide rates in 2022, not including cities at war.
It also only includes cities with populations over 300,000. Otherwise, our home city of Birmingham, Alabama would make the list at number eight with 77.7 homicides per 100,000 people.
In fact the city we’re moving to in Mexico (Mérida) has 2.6% as many murders as where we live in the U.S, with an annual murder rate of 2 per 100,000 people.
1. Colima, Mexico
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181.94 murders per 100,000 residents
2. Zamora, Mexico
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177.73 murders per 100,000 residents
3. Ciudad Obregón, Mexico
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138.23 murders per 100,000 residents
4. Zacatecas, Mexico
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134.62 murders per 100,000 residents
5. Tijuana, Mexico
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105.12 murders per 100,000 residents
6. Celaya, Mexico
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99.64 murders per 100,000 residents
7. Uruapan, Mexico
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78.26 murders per 100,000 residents
8. New Orleans, United States
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70.56 murders per 100,000 residents
9. Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
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67.69 murders per 100,000 residents
10. Acapulco, Mexico
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65.55 murders per 100,000 residents
11. Mossoró, Brazil
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63.21 murders per 100,000 residents
12. Cape Town, South Africa
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63.00 murders per 100,000 residents
13. Irapuato, Mexico
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61.60 murders per 100,000 residents
14. Cuernavaca, Mexico
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60.20 murders per 100,000 residents
15. Durban, South Africa
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59.37 murders per 100,000 residents
16. Kingston, Jamaica
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58.46 murders per 100,000 residents
17. Baltimore, United States
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57.76 murders per 100,000 residents
18. Nelson Mandela Bay (Port Elizabeth), South Africa
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56.99 murders per 100,000 residents
19. Salvador, Brazil
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56.68 murders per 100,000 residents
20. Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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54.75 murders per 100,000 residents
21. Manaus, Brazil
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50.66 murders per 100,000 residents
22. Feira de Santana, Brazil
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50.11 murders per 100,000 residents
23. Detroit, United States
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48.86 murders per 100,000 residents
24. Guayaquil, Ecuador
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47.77 murders per 100,000 residents
25. Memphis, United States
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47.75 murders per 100,000 residents
26. Vitória da Conquista, Brazil
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47.48 murders per 100,000 residents
27. Cleveland, United States
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45.65 murders per 100,000 residents
28. Natal, Brazil
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45.06 murders per 100,000 residents
29. Cancún, Mexico
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44.09 murders per 100,000 residents
30. Chihuahua, Mexico
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43.84 murders per 100,000 residents
31. Fortaleza, Brazil
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42.63 murders per 100,000 residents
32. Cali, Colombia
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42.09 murders per 100,000 residents
33. Morelia, Mexico
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42.05 murders per 100,000 residents
34. Johannesburg, South Africa
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41.43 murders per 100,000 residents
35. Recife, Brazil
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39.89 murders per 100,000 residents
36. Maceió, Brazil
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39.45 murders per 100,000 residents
37. Santa Marta, Colombia
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39.28 murders per 100,000 residents
38. León, Mexico
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37.64 murders per 100,000 residents
39. Milwaukee, United States
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37.59 murders per 100,000 residents
40. Teresina, Brazil
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37.30 murders per 100,000 residents
41. San Juan, Puerto Rico
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37.06 murders per 100,000 residents
42. San Pedro Sula, Honduras
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36.03 murders per 100,000 residents
43. Buenaventura, Colombia
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35.16 murders per 100,000 residents
44. Ensenada, Mexico
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34.93 murders per 100,000 residents
45. Distrito Central, Honduras
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32.81 murders per 100,000 residents
46. Philadelphia, United States
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32.74 murders per 100,000 residents
47. Cartagena, Colombia
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31.29 murders per 100,000 residents
48. Palmira, Colombia
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30.66 murders per 100,000 residents
49. Cúcuta, Colombia
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29.47 murders per 100,000 residents
50. San Luis Potosí, Mexico
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29.06 murders per 100,000 residents
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Jen Barnett is the co-founder of Expatsi, a company that's helped thousands of Americans on their moving abroad journeys. She created the Expatsi Test, an assessment that recommends countries for aspiring emigrants based on lifestyle data. Jen has an MBA from Emory University with concentrations in marketing and innovation. Prior to Expatsi, she created Freshfully and Bottle & Bone—two businesses in the local food space—and spoke at TEDx on being brave. She lives in Mérida, Yucatán, along with her husband and co-founder Brett, pitbull mix Squiggy, and two rotten cats. How can she help you move abroad?
