El Salvador: 14 times fewer homicides per 100,000 people than in 2015
107.6 per 100,000 people in 2015, 7.9 in 2022, according to official national data compiled by the UN. For comparison, the US: 6.5 (2022).
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Intentional homicides: people deliberately killed in a year per 100,000 residents, according to the country’s police or health data. War deaths are not included.
The line is homicides per 100,000 people by year; the dot marks the start of the turn.
- Intentional homicides per 100,000 people
107.6 (2015) → 7.9 (2022)
- United States: Intentional homicides per 100,000 people
6.5 (2022)
UNODC via the World Bank (VC.IHR.PSRC.P5). Selection: countries of at least 3 million where the rate reached 30 or more within the last ten years of the series and changed at least sixfold, with the latest year at the end of that turn.
This is the country’s official count. In some countries independent researchers and human-rights groups dispute its completeness, for example whether bodies from clandestine graves and deaths in clashes with security forces are counted.
A question for this picture
What lies behind the fall: different policing, mass arrests or a different way of counting?