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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 Barbuda20201,311 
Argentina------ 
Bahamas20206,161 
Barbados2020205 
Belize202059 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada2021196,973 
Chile2020612,281 
Colombia202071,984 
Costa Rica------ 
Dominica------ 
Dominican Republic2020115,401 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador202027,625 
Grenada------ 
Guatemala202082,491 
Guyana202015,489 
Haiti------ 
Honduras------ 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico20211,275,303 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama202119,579 
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
 
    
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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).