Guatemala Femicide 2012

The Guatemalan PNC has so far reported 5,174 homicides for 2012. However, I've only been able to find the gender breakdown up until December 15th when the PNC reported that 544 women had died. That works out to 1.5 women murdered, on average, each day. Until I find differently, I estimated another 24 murders of women between the 16th and the 31st of December for a year end total of 568.

Like overall homicides, those of women decreased in 2012 as well - not the hundred that Otto Perez Molina had hoped during his first year but a decrease nonetheless. In 2011, women comprised 11.11% of all murders in Guatemala and in 2012 they comprised 10.98%.