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The homicide rate in El Salvador has plummeted drastically since 2015. The Salvadoran gang crackdown has led the country to have the highest incarceration rate in the world at 1,086 people per 100,000 with an estimated 1.6% of the country's total population said to be currently incarcerated.
The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a homicide rate of 30 out of 100,000 is presented in the table as "30", and corresponds to 0.03% of the population dying by homicide.
Homicide rates (from firearms) per 100,000 people by country. [1] This is a list of countries by firearm-related homicide rate per 100,000 population by year. Homicide figures may include justifiable homicides along with criminal homicides, depending upon jurisdiction and reporting standards. Not included are accidental deaths, or justifiable ...
In under four years, El Salvador has dismantled organized-crime groups and recovered territory controlled by gangs | Opinion
Gang violence contributed to El Salvador having one of the highest homicide rates in the world for decades; [18]: 9 in 2015, El Salvador's homicide rate reached 103 homicides per 100,000 people — of 6,650 homicides registered that year — making it the most violent country in the Western Hemisphere.
El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation's solution to rampant gang violence, but human rights groups have slammed its alleged inhumane treatment of its ...
Faced with some of the highest homicide rates in the world and the decades-long dominance of the MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs, his government first tried to contain the violence by secretly ...
Violent crime is rampant in El Salvador, in 2012 the homicide rate peaked at 105 homicides per 100,000 residents. In 2016, the rate decreased by 20%, but El Salvador has gotten better over the years. The new president, Nayib Bukele has transformed the gang ridden country into "the safest country in the western hemisphere".