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Honduras, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Bolivia, and Brazil reported the highest rates of femicide across the region respectively in 2021. [16] In Honduras, 4.6 women per 100,000 were the victims of femicide. [16] In the Dominican Republic, 2.7 women per 100,000 were the victims of femicide. [16]
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.
As gang violence is largely viewed as responsible for El Salvador’s high femicide rates, the crackdown has resulted in the defunding of numerous women's rights organizations across the country. Women have been left vulnerable to domestic violence and harassment, including harassment from the police officers and authorities that surveil their ...
Today femicide and abuse are driving suicide rates up among Salvadoran women, and forcing many to flee north to seek asylum in the U.S.
The rates of femicide differ depending on the specific country, but of the countries with the top 25 highest femicide rates, 50% are in Latin America, with number one being El Salvador. Also included in the top 25 are seven European countries, three Asian countries, and one African country, South Africa.
Infanticide and femicide are common, with El Salvador hosting the third-highest femicide rate in the world. In 2016, one in 5,000 Salvadoran women were killed. Legal impunity is a key factor. In femicide cases, only 5% result in convictions. [29]
In 2015, the maternal mortality ratio in El Salvador was 54 deaths/100,000 live births and the total fertility rate was 1.91 children born/woman. [ 4 ] During the 2005–2009 period, 94 percent of Salvadoran pregnant women received at least one antenatal visit, which is above the 84.1 percent average for their Human Development group.
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