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The homicide rate in El Salvador has plummeted drastically since 2015. The Salvadoran gang crackdown has led the country to have the highest incarceration rate in the world at 1,086 people per 100,000 with an estimated 1.6% of the country's total population said to be currently incarcerated.
This is a list of countries by firearm-related homicide rate per 100,000 population by year. ... El Salvador * 4.782: 11.181 ... —Contains statistics from 36 ...
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.
Violent crime is rampant in El Salvador, in 2012 the homicide rate peaked at 105 homicides per 100,000 residents. In 2016, the rate decreased by 20%, but El Salvador has gotten better over the years. The new president, Nayib Bukele has transformed the gang ridden country into "the safest country in the western hemisphere".
Gang violence contributed to El Salvador having one of the highest homicide rates in the world for decades; [17]: 9 in 2015, El Salvador's homicide rate reached 103 homicides per 100,000 people — of 6,650 homicides registered that year — making it the most violent country in the Western Hemisphere.
This announcement was accompanied by a video detailing his government's claims about this dramatic change in the occurrences of homicide. [200] In 2024, El Salvador reported a homicide rate of 1.9 per 100,000 people, a figure lower than any other Latin American country. [201] This rate represents a 98% decrease in nine years. [202]
By arresting more than 1% of his country's population, Bukele, who won reelection to a second five-year term Sunday, is trying to break the chain of violence that has ravaged El Salvador for ...
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]