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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.
In 2021, the homicide rate reached the lowest it has been since the Salvadoran Civil War ended in 1992, with 18 homicides per 100,000 people. [27] Although the decline in homicides began in 2016, Bukele attributed it to his policies, [25] and it has been one of his most-touted accomplishments. [28]
The countries with the most homicides per unit population are generally countries with small populations (very narrow rectangles in chart, 2021). [1] 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 ...
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]
The estimated 22,900 murders and other killings last year would bring the nation's homicide rate to 6.9 per 100,000—the highest in almost 25 years. Homicides Continued to Increase in 2021 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The growth of evangelical Christianity behind bars in El Salvador is giving gangsters a way to break the spiral of violence.