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4.3 Criminal Justice System Process | Persons prosecuted – By age status and sex, and by citizenship
4.3.2 Adults prosecuted
“Adults prosecuted" means the total number of adult alleged offenders (Males and Females) against whom prosecution commenced in the reporting year. Adult persons may be prosecuted by the public prosecutor or the law enforcement agency responsible for prosecution. All adult persons for which prosecution started should be counted, irrespective of the case-ending decision.

[Source: United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).]


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Antigua and Barbuda202262 
Argentina------ 
Bahamas20229,702 
Barbados2022242 
Belize20223,243 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada2021196,973 
Chile2022232,155 
Colombia2022110,652 
Costa Rica------ 
Dominica------ 
Dominican Republic202226,029 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador202256,639 
Grenada------ 
Guatemala202216,349 
Guyana202015,489 
Haiti------ 
Honduras202212,570 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico20221,147,984 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama202221,693 
Paraguay201616,622 
Peru2016575,674 
Saint Kitts and Nevis2020112 
Saint Lucia20201,608 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines20201,279 
Suriname20165,299 
Trinidad and Tobago20185,422 
United States201562,960 
Uruguay202117,085 
Venezuela------ 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas------ 
02. Caribbean------ 
03. Central America------ 
04. North America------ 
05. South America------ 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).