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Misiones, Paraguay: crime rate and Safety score

Too few places to compare within Paraguay.

3/10 in the world

Weighted crime: 10,823 per 100,000 people (2025) Yearly rate estimated from 11 months.

Crime by type, as recorded by Ministerio Público del Paraguay (2025)

Type	Count	Per 100,000 a year	All places this source covers
Homicide
Intentional homicide	6	5.9	18.1
Attempts included: the Ministerio Público's own yearly series counts about a third of these as completed homicides.
Sexual offences
Sexual abuse of children	53	52	56.7
Sexual abuse of people in one's care	0	0	0.3
Sexual abuse of children online	0	0	0.2
Sexual acts with same-sex minors (penal code article 138)	0	0	0.2
Sex with a minor by deception (estupro)	24	23.6	16.4
Child sexual abuse images	1	1	41.9
Procuring	0	0	2.4
Living off prostitution	1	1	0.3
Violence
Grievous bodily harm	11	10.8	10.5
Attempts included.
Threats	295	289.6	204.8
Attempts included.
Ill-treatment of children in one's care	39	38.3	27
Human trafficking	2	2	1.7
Robbery
Robbery	12	11.8	86.3
Attempts included.
Aggravated robbery	9	8.8	123.6
Attempts included.
Robbery resulting in death	1	1	1.1
Extortion	20	19.6	24.1
Theft and burglary
Theft	529	519.2	583
Attempts included.
Aggravated theft	162	159	466.5
Attempts included.
Especially serious theft	10	9.8	14.1
Misappropriation	104	102.1	144.9
Drugs
Drug trafficking (cases of the specialised unit)	2	2	42.3
Other
Negligent homicide (mostly traffic)	23	22.6	15.3
Fraud	266	261.1	236.3
Computer fraud	27	26.5	42.5
Unlawful access to computer systems	26	25.5	14.9
Tampering with data	2	2	7.4
Neglect of a duty of care to a child	41	40.2	44.2
Failure to pay child support	233	228.7	118.3
Other cases (all cases less the lines published apart)	2,808	2,756.2	2,387.9
Includes family violence, which the Ministerio Público does not publish by department.

Source: Ministerio Público del Paraguay, updated 26 October 2026.