These countries have a tenth the world's people — and almost half its homicides - Vox

These countries have a tenth the world's people — and almost half its homicides - Vox





Think of it as a new kind of global inequality. The United Nations
warns there's a widening gap between countries with extremely high
homicide rates and countries with low ones.




According to a recent UN Office of Drugs and Crime
report, 25 countries have rates of at least 20 homicides per 100,000
people. That's way more violent than the United States — our homicide
rate is a mere 4.7 per 100,000 people. It's even more violent than some
combat zones. Iraq, for example, had a violent death rate of 18 per
100,000 people in 2012, including both homicides and civilian deaths in combat.


All in all, the most homicidal countries account for a tenth of the
world's population (11 percent) but nearly half — 46 percent — of its
homicides