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The report stated that 33% of kidnappings occurred in the capital city of Caracas and that hundreds of kidnappings happen every year. [50] News.com.au called Venezuela capital "the kidnap capital of the world" in 2013, noting that Venezuela had the highest kidnapping rate in the world and that 5 people were kidnapped for a ransom every day. [46]
The connection between increased tourism and kidnapping is reflected through the rise of global kidnapping rates from 2019 to 2021–2023. [55] The 10 countries with the highest kidnapping rates in 2023 [56] The highest recorded ransom demand in 2021 was $77.3 million, while in 2019, it was $28.7 million.
Venezuela has also ranked high internationally among countries with high kidnapping rates, with consulting firm Control Risk ranking Venezuela 5th in the world for kidnappings in 2013 [71] and News.com.au calling Venezuela's capital city of Caracas "the kidnap capital of the world" in 2013, noting that Venezuela had the highest kidnapping rate ...
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 country, says the U.N.’s top human rights advocate, just recorded its most violent month in two years after logging more than 1,100 deaths, killings, kidnappings and injuries in January.
Many African nations are facing a kidnapping ransom crisis, including South Africa, which has seen a high rate of kidnapping The post South African kidnappings for ransom increase at an alarming ...
Hostage taking by country (40 C) A. Kidnappings in Afghanistan (2 C, 3 P) Kidnappings in Algeria (9 P) ... Kidnappings in the United States (11 C, 12 P) V.
To rank the countries with the highest suicides, we headed on over to the Global Health Data Exchange, and calculated the age standardized suicide rates for both 2016 and 2017, the latest years ...