According to the United Nations, Latin America is the region with the most homicides on the planet – Telam

A report on killings in the world prepared by the United Nations warns that the American continent accounts for 42% of the total number of victims, while it is home to only 13% of the world's population and highlights that the situation is particularly serious in Latin America because of inequalities, the weakness of the judicial system and organized crime.

The data are drawn from the 2019 global homicide study published today in Vienna by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNIDO), which shows that the Average annual homicide rate in the Americas is 17.2 per 100,000 population, almost triple the world average and nearly six times more than in Europe.

Central America, with a homicide rate of 25.9 per 100,000 population, is the region of the world with the highest number of violent deaths due to drug-related murders and increased number of gangs.

South America ranks second with 24% and the Caribbean with 15% third among the subregions with the highest number of homicides among victims of terrorism is another feature of the violent phenomenon. . planet, according to the news agency EFE.

America is the only region in which this rate has increased since 1990, the report notes.