Insecurity and criminal acts are among the issues that concern the Argentine population the most. In every election, the topic becomes one of the main points of discussion among political parties and candidates. The debate around public policies that should be implemented to improve these indicators cannot be separated from detailed statistical information.
At Infodash you can explore the evolution and current state of different types of crimes and causes of death, segmented by year, province, and department. The data is sourced from databases published by the Ministry of Security of the Nation and the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC). Updates are made automatically as new databases are published.
Among the types of crimes you can explore are: homicides, rapes, suicides, robberies, thefts, assaults and threats, smuggling, drug trafficking, and firearms offenses, among others. The detailed and systematized information offered by Infodash allows you to investigate different questions and situations, as well as correlations between population and rates of different types of events.
For example, regarding total victims of road traffic accidents, the province of Buenos Aires leads the ranking with nearly 1,000 fatalities in 2023. However, when considering victims per 100,000 inhabitants, it is one of the provinces with the lowest rate, along with Tierra del Fuego and the City of Buenos Aires. Conversely, the worst rates were found in the north-central provinces: Santiago del Estero, Misiones, Chaco, among others.
This geographic concentration raises various questions and lines of research: Do these provinces lead the ranking every year? Are there significant differences in the road maintenance conditions across provinces? Are there differences in provincial road safety laws? Regarding alcohol tolerance laws for driving, several provinces have already implemented zero-alcohol-at-the-wheel laws, and even some municipalities have done the same: how are these changes reflected in the statistics?
