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Mexico is the second largest economy in Latin America, after Brazil; and the second Latin American country with most number of poor, after Brazil as well; given Mexico's population is about 80 million less than Brazil. [126] [127] Mexico has the 11th to 13th richest economy in the world and ranks 4th with most number of poor among richest ...
Rates of crime in Guatemala are very high. 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) and Guatemala City (101). [1]
[62] Under policies enacted by Mayor Marcelo Ebrard between 2009 and 2011, Mexico City underwent a major security upgrade with violent and petty crime rates both falling significantly despite the rise in violent crime in other parts of the country. Some of the policies enacted included the installation of 11,000 security cameras around the city ...
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 National Institute of Statistic and Geography released information of homicides for the 32 federal states of Mexico. In the year 2011 there were 27,199 homicides in Mexico . The state of Chihuahua ranked number one with the most homicides in the country, the least was Baja California Sur .
(2022) [2] Very high human development 1 Mexico City: 0.839 2 Baja California: 0.811 3 Nuevo León: 0.809 4 Baja California Sur: 0.806 5 Sinaloa: 0.805 6 Sonora: 0.804 High human development 7 Coahuila: 0.799 8 Aguascalientes: 0.798 9 Tamaulipas: 0.793 10 Jalisco: 0.790 11 Colima: 12 Querétaro: 0.789 13 Chihuahua: 0.786 14 State of Mexico: 0. ...
Crime is particularly high in Honduras' second city and industrial heartland, San Pedro Sula Crime is a major problem in Honduras , which has the highest murder rate of any nation. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime , Honduras has the highest rate of intentional homicide in the world, with 6,239 intentional homicides, or ...
The data indicate that Guatemala is behind other Latin American countries, in terms of lowering poverty rates, but there has been an increase in economic activity in terms of GDP and development. Guatemala's HDI increased from 0.462 in 1990, to 0.525 in 2000, to 0.550 in 2005, and 0.574 in 2011.3 Guatemala ranked 131st in HDI in 2011. [30]