excluding 10 cases of unspecified gender and 190 without information
Supplementary notes
* According to the in Colombia, the term Population Center is defined as "a concentration of at least 20 contiguous dwellings, neighbors or semi-detached houses; located in the rest of the municipality area or in a non-municipalized area."
In 2023, more than two-thirds of homicides in Colombia took place in municipal seats, with the figure now at 70.75 percent. Meanwhile, over 23 percent of the murders occurred in rural areast. Furthermore, most murders occurred in public spaces.
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Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses. (January 3, 2025). Distribution of homicides in Colombia in 2023, by area [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 23, 2026, from /statistics/919762/distribution-homicides-colombia-area/
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