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High murder rates have long plagued Honduras, which has been routinely classified as one of the most dangerous countries in the region. Latin America as a whole is home to 8 percent of the world's population, yet it accounts for almost 37% of the world’s homicides.
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.
The GPI (Global Peace Index) is developed in consultation with an international panel of peace experts from peace institutes and think tanks with data collected by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The Index was first launched in 2007, [4] with subsequent reports being released annually. In 2015 it ranked 165 countries, up from 121 in 2007.
As a country, Honduras is by far the world's most dangerous ... Ciudad Juarez, a notorious Mexican border town also infested with drug gangs that previously topped most dangerous cities lists, has ...
The level of drug related violence was halved in the last 10 years, when the country moved from being the most violent country in the world to have a homicide rate that is inferior to the one registered in countries like Honduras, Jamaica, El Salvador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Trinidad and Tobago and South Africa. [35]
There are 2 countries in the UNODC dataset that are missing from the table below: Egypt (2.062 rate in 2011) and India (0.297 rate in 2012). Asterisk (*) in Location column indicates a Crime in LOCATION article. Homicide rates by firearm per 100,000 inhabitants. Table. Latest available year.
The table below shows the FSI for 2024, [5] with comparisons of each country's current score to previous years' indices. [6] A higher score (with a maximum of 120) indicates a weaker, more vulnerable, or more fragile situation in the country. ^ a b Prior to the 2021 index, Israel and Palestine (West Bank) were scored as a single state.
617,526. Source: AIP, [1] EMCO, S.A. [2] Toncontín Airport (IATA: TGU, ICAO: MHTG) formerly Toncontín International Airport, also known as Teniente Coronel Hernán Acosta Mejía Airport is a civil and military airport located 6 km (4 mi) from the centre of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The History Channel programme Most Extreme Airports ranks it as ...