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The homicide rate in El Salvador has plummeted drastically since 2015. The 2022 Salvadoran gang crackdown has led the country to have the highest incarceration rate in the world at 1086 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.
In 2015, the country's homicide rate peaked at 104 homicides per 100,000 people for a total of 6,657 homicides, the most homicides recorded in El Salvador since 1983 during the civil war. [46]
Gang violence contributed to El Salvador having one of the highest homicide rates in the world for decades; [17]: 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.
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador's Congress on Wednesday approved group trials for the tens of thousands of people arrested during President Nayib Bukele's crackdown on criminal gangs, which ...
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".
El Salvador's new president said his country is trying to reduce irregular migration and fight crime and drug trafficking, and deserves to be treated differently than nearby countries. In remarks ...
Official 2018 statistics show only 46 deaths in police custody and 24 deaths of people in police/judicial remand and an additional 21 civilian killed during police operations for a total of 91 nationally. See Table 16A and 16B.4 of Official Govt. of India publication: Crime in India 2018 [48] [49] Australia: Oceania 16 0 0 0 0 24,600,000 6.5 ...