Sunday, April 13, 2014

A group of countries — all of them in either the Americas or Africa — accounting for just 11% of the global population are the location of 46% of the world’s homicides

Honduras has the world’s highest homicide rate at 90.4 murders per 100,000 people, and it’s not even close. Venezuela is next with 53.7. Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Jamaica all have rates around 40. The world’s safest country, in terms of homicide, is tiny Liechtenstein, which didn’t have any murders in 2012, but there are a number of countries, especially in Europe and East Asia, with rates lower than 1 per 100,000.
at

2 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 13, 2014 at 11:12 PM

    And they are all coming to America for a better life.

    ReplyDelete
  2. AnonymousApril 14, 2014 at 4:56 AM

    The percentage of whites in the US population is 82.9%; of blacks, it is 12.6%, and other is 4.5%.
    The homicide rates for each group are (per 100,000): 4.5 for whites, 34.4 for blacks, and 4.1 for other (USDOJ statistics for the period 1980-2008)

    http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf

    ReplyDelete