Argentina, second country of South America where the homicide rate is the lowest

The writing, made from public data of 2017, highlights the fact that our country is below the global average of 6.1 murders per 100,000 population.

The UN badyzes the 464,000 deaths caused by a worldwide homicide in 2017 and highlights: the majority (37%) were registered in America; followed closely by Africa, which accounts for just over one-third (35%) of the total; Then come Asia (23%), while Europe (4.7%) and Oceania (0.2%) have the smallest participation in this ranking.

In detail, it shows that in South America, there is an average of 24.2 intentional homicides per 100,000 population, but the gap is significant. Venezuela and Brazil have respectively 56.8 and 30.5 murders, while Chile and Argentina have 3.5 and 5.1 respectively.

On the trend in Latin America, the study pointed out that the causes are the problems of inequality, weakness of the judicial system and the strength of organized crime, which increases statistics.

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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. More specifically, the only four countries in the world where homicide rates are more than 40 people they are: The Savior (62.1) Venezuela (57) Jamaica (57) and Honduras (41.7).

"The highest national homicide rate is seven times higher than the lowest," says the Central American article. an increasingly important problem in the countries of the Northern Triangle (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador) over the past two decades. "