Saturday, May 09, 2015

Mapped: One-in-five murder victims in world is Brazilian, Colombian or Venezuelan...

One-in-five murder victims around the world is Brazilian, Colombian or Venezuelan, a study has shown, despite the three countries containing less than four per cent of the world's total population.

The Homicide Monitor data project compiled by the Brazil-based Instituto Igarape reveals the high rates of homicide around Latin America and the Caribbean, where a third of all of the world's homicides occur.

The region contains only eight per cent of the world's total population.

Honduras (85.5 murders per 100,000 inhabitants), Venezuela (53.7) and the US Virgin Islands (46.9) have the highest murder rates per population in the world.

 By contrast, Britain's is 1.2 per 100,000 population, while the US is 4.7. Full story...

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