Bob Butler wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 2:45 pmThis had me wondering. I looked up murder rates by nation. El Salvador was listed as #1 at 52.02 per 10K population. Luxembourg is at #188 of 196 at 0.32. The United States by comparison is #76 at 4.96. Your statement is correct if you assume 'on par' accepts a couple of orders of magnitude delta in a rather meaningless envelope.Guest wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:14 amAnd one last thing to ponder: El Salvador now has a murder rate on par with Luxembourg.
I assume your other statements are as accurate?
https://www.datapandas.org/ranking/murd ... by-country
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ ... 024-01-03/Americas
El Salvador says murders fell 70% in 2023 as it cracked down on gangs
Reuters
January 3, 20241:17 PM CST
Updated 2 months ago
SAN SALVADOR, Jan 3 (Reuters) - The number of homicides in El Salvador dropped nearly 70% during 2023, the Central American country's security authorities said on Wednesday, crediting a prolonged state of emergency declared by the government of President Nayib Bukele to fight crime gangs.
Justice and Security Minister Gustavo Villatoro said 154 murders were committed last year, down from 495 the year before.
That implies a homicide rate of 2.4 per every 100,000 people, which Villatoro said was the lowest in the Americas apart from Canada.
More than 1,000 people were killed in El Salvador in 2021 and 2020, and over 2,000 in 2019, according to official data.
Bukele's crackdown has been broadly popular with Salvadorans weary of years of gang violence, extortion and drug dealing.
The source you cite (https://www.datapandas.org/ranking/murd ... by-country) uses the below link as their reference. This reference shows a murder rate for El Salvador of 7.83 per 100,000 in 2022.
https://dataunodc.un.org/dp-intentional ... de-victims