Argentina’s Security Minister Alejandra Monteoliva has presented preliminary crime statistics for 2025, showing a sustained reduction in homicides and a historic fall in robberies nationwide.
According to Security Ministry figures, the national homicide rate closed out 2025 at 3.7 per 100,000 inhabitants – a 5.6 percent year-on-year decline and a cumulative reduction of 17 percent over the past two years.
“Since the start of this administration, 392 lives have been saved. For us, those are core data, because every life counts,” the minister said.
For the second year running, Argentina had the lowest murder rate in Latin America and the Caribbean, said Monteoliva.
At a territorial level, 15 of the 24 jurisdictions improved their indicators, confirming a nationwide downward trend, added the official.
Monteoliva also noted a more than 20 percent decrease in the number of simple and aggravated robberies reported compared to 2024.
The minister said the data highlighted the role of criminal information in public administration. “We are not only building evidence, but also making decisions based on evidence. Data allow us to track progress towards objectives and to see how positive results are achieved against crime and criminal organisations,” she argued.
Monteoliva attributed the results to Plan 90/10, which focuses on areas with the highest concentration of lethal violence. The report shows that 70 percent of the national reduction in murders occurred in provinces covered by the programme.
The territorial core where 90 percent of murders are concentrated was also reduced, from 193 municipalities in 2023 to 180 in 2025, reflecting a gradual contraction of the most violent areas.
The minister also highlighted the Bandera Plan in Rosario. In areas patrolled exclusively by federal forces, murders fell by 22 percent in 2025, bringing the cumulative reduction to nearly 70 percent in the first two years of the plan’s implementation.
On robberies, both simple and aggravated, the report marked a turning point, with no jurisdiction recording an increase in 2025.
“The decline was uniform across all 24 jurisdictions,” Monteoliva said. The national robbery rate fell by 20.8 percent year-on-year – reaching its lowest level in the historical series, comparable only to 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown.
Monteoliva said the data allow for more precise analysis of crime dynamics and strengthen coordination with provincial authorities.
“These indicators help us define territorial deployment more accurately and reinforce the role of the Security Minister as a complement to security management in every jurisdiction,” she said.
The report was released at the headquarters of the Security Ministry, with Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni, Security Secretary Martín Ferlauto and Crime Statistics Director Marco Antonio González Lozada in attendance.
The figures released are based on internal surveys by the Security Ministry and are preliminary. Final data will be published in due course through the Sistema Nacional de Información Criminal (National Crime Information System or SNIC).
– TIMES/PERFIL
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