A new UN report says that one in 50 Central American 20-year-old men will be murdered before they turn 31

The report places much of the blame on violence between drug trafficking groups in recent years, but also notes that the bump in murders coincided with the 2008-2009 financial crisis. The murder rate in Central America had fallen between 1995 and 2005, before heading sharply upward beginning in 2007. It's now "several hundred times higher than in some parts of Asia," notes the report, which is the agency's first report on homicides worldwide. It was reported that 468,000 people were murdered around the globe in 2010; 80% of the killers and victims were men, and the homicides usually occurred on the streets. Female victims were typically murdered in the home, by a family member.