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Peru tracks feminicide through two connected official channels - the Ministerio Público's case registry and INEI's national statistics - but 2024 counts diverged sharply (154 vs. 119 cases), exposing gaps in the country's most authoritative violence data system.
Peru records feminicide - the gender-motivated killing of a woman - through two linked official systems: the Fiscalía de la Nación / Ministerio Público's judicial case registry and the Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI)'s annual crime statistics, alongside casework data from the Ministry of Women's Centros de Emergencia Mujer network.
For 2024, INEI reported 154 feminicide cases (a rate of roughly 1 per 100,000 women), with 70% of victims under 40. The Ministerio Público's own "Radiografía de una violencia que no se detiene" report counted 119 confirmed cases for the same year - a 35-case, 23% gap attributable to differing verification thresholds between the statistical and prosecutorial registries. Lima Metropolitana recorded the most cases (36), followed by Cusco (15), Junín (12), Cajamarca (11) and Arequipa (9); in 80% of cases the aggressor was a current or former partner, and 65.4% of killings occurred in the victim's home.
By March 2026 the cumulative count since January 2024 had reached 187 victims, with roughly three feminicides and five attempted feminicides recorded per week during 2024.
The unreconciled gap between INEI's and the Ministerio Público's own totals for the same year is publicly acknowledged in Peruvian reporting and reflects a structural weakness: two official institutions with overlapping mandates producing materially different counts, which analysts say complicates real-time policy targeting despite the registry's decade-long institutional history.
Read the full analysis: https://www.gob.pe/institucion/inei/noticias/1291805-inei-peru-registro-154-casos-de-feminicidio-el-2024
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