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Rates of crime in Guatemala are very high. An average of 101 murders per week were reported in 2018. An average of 101 murders per week were reported in 2018. [ citation needed ] In the 1990s Guatemala had four cities feature in Latin America's top ten cities by murder rate: Escuintla (165 per 100,000), Izabal (127), Santa Rosa Cuilapa (111 ...
While there is a positive GDP growth of 4.5 percent in that same fiscal year in Guatemala, [1] it has done little to reduce poverty. With economic growth bearing no absolute causality on poverty reduction, there is a need for the social determinants of poverty to be looked into.
Bolivia was one of the poorest countries in South America, but between 2006 and 2014, GDP per capita doubled and the extreme poverty rate declined from 38 to 18%. [21] This represents a great improvement in comparison to the situation by 2005, diminishing poverty from 59.6% to 38.6% in a decade. [22]
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 ...
Crime and violence affect the lives of millions of people in Latin America.Some consider social inequality to be a major contributing factor to levels of violence in Latin America, [1] where the state fails to prevent crime and organized crime takes over State control in areas where the State is unable to assist the society such as in impoverished communities.
Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala. July 9 – Guatemala puts 66 of its municipalities on alert due to a sharp increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. [1] July 30 – One person is wounded in an assassination attempt on President of Guatemala Alejandro Giammattei. The president is unharmed. [2]
Oct. 31—New state data shows Alaska's overall crime rate continues to fall, but some forms of violent crime, including murder, are up. The Alaska Department of Public Safety's annual Crime in ...
In September 2022, the World Bank updated the International Poverty Line (IPL), a global absolute minimum, to $2.15 per day [7] (in PPP). In addition, as of 2022, $3.65 per day in PPP for lower-middle income countries, and $6.85 per day in PPP for upper-middle income countries.