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Target
group
analysis

Period

The Global Assassination Monitor categorizes victims into eight overarching target groups. Everything else falls under the category of 'others'. For 2019 to 2020, members of the local community were the main target group globally.

28%

Local community

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24%

Politics & governance

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15%

Security

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12%

Illicit market

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7%

Media

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4%

Criminal justice

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4%

Private sector

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2%

Not reported

1%

Others

1%

International community

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Number of cases over time

0204060Jan 2019Feb 2019Mar 2019Apr 2019May 2019Jun 2019Jul 2019Aug 2019Sep 2019Oct 2019Nov 2019Dec 2019Jan 2020Feb 2020Mar 2020Apr 2020May 2020Jun 2020Jul 2020Aug 2020Sep 2020Oct 2020Nov 2020Dec 2020

target groups by

Disaggregated by:
Local community There is 216 stuff in this nodeLocal communit...Politics & governance There is 182 stuff in this nodePolitics & gov...Security There is 116 stuff in this nodeSecurityIllicit market There is 95 stuff in this nodeIllicit marketMedia There is 55 stuff in this nodeMediaCriminal justice There is 34 stuff in this nodeCriminal justi...Private sector There is 30 stuff in this nodePrivate sectorNot reported There is 18 stuff in this nodeNot reportedOthers There is 11 stuff in this nodeOthersInternational community There is 9 stuff in this nodeInternational ...Not reported There is 479 stuff in this nodeNot reportedOrganized crime There is 59 stuff in this nodeOrganized crim...Hitmen There is 41 stuff in this nodeHitmenArmed group There is 118 stuff in this nodeArmed groupOthers There is 19 stuff in this nodeOthersState representative There is 41 stuff in this nodeState represen...Politicial party There is 9 stuff in this nodePoliticial par...

target group

766 cases

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