This is an interesting set of facts…


From the World Health Organization: 

The latest Murder Statistics for the world: 

  Murders per 100,000 citizens 

Honduras 91.6 
El Salvador 69.2 
Cote d’lvoire 56.9 
Jamaica 52.2 
Venezuela 45.1 
Belize 41.4 
US Virgin Islands 39.2 
Guatemala 38.5 
Saint Kits and Nevis 38.2 
Zambia 38.0 
Uganda 36.3 
Malawi 36.0 
Lesotho 35.2 
Trinidad and Tobago 35.2 
Colombia 33.4 
South Africa 31.8 
Congo 30.8 
Central African Republic 29.3 
Bahamas 27.4 
Puerto Rico 26.2 
Saint Lucia 25.2 
Dominican Republic 25.0 
Tanzania 24.5 
Sudan 24.2 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 22.9 
Ethiopia 22.5 
Guinea 22.5 
Dominica 22.1 
Burundi 21.7 
Democratic Republic of the Congo 21.7 
Panama 21.6 
Brazil 21.0 
Equatorial Guinea 20.7 
Guinea-Bissau 20.2 
Kenya 20.1 
Kyrgyzstan 20.1 
Cameroon 19.7 
Montserrat 19.7 
Greenland 19.2 
Angola 19.0 
Guyana 18.6 
Burkina Faso 18.0 
Eritrea 17.8 
Namibia 17.2 
Rwanda 17.1 
Mexico 16.9 
Chad 15.8 
Ghana 15.7 
Ecuador 15.2 
North Korea 15.2 
Benin 15.1 
Sierra Leone 14.9 
Mauritania 14.7 
Botswana 14.5 
Zimbabwe 14.3 
Gabon 13.8 
Nicaragua 13.6 
French Guiana 13.3 
Papua New Guinea 13.0 
Swaziland 12.9 
Bermuda 12.3 
Comoros 12.2 
Nigeria 12.2 
Cape Verde 11.6 
Grenada 11.5 
Paraguay 11.5 
Barbados 11.3 
Togo 10.9 
Gambia 10.8 
Peru 10.8 
Myanmar 10.2 
Russia 10.2 
Liberia 10.1 
Costa Rica 10.0 
Nauru 9.8 
Bolivia 8.9 
Mozambique 8.8 
Kazakhstan 8.8 
Senegal 8.7 
Turks and Caicos Islands 8.7 
Mongolia 8.7 
British Virgin Islands 8.6 
Cayman Islands 8.4 
Seychelles 8.3 
Madagascar 8.1 
Indonesia 8.1 
Mali 8.0 
Pakistan 7.8 
Moldova 7.5 
Kiribati 7.3 
Guadeloupe 7.0 
Haiti 6.9 
Timor-Leste 6.9 
Anguilla 6.8 
Antigua and Barbuda 6.8 
Lithuania 6.6 
Uruguay 5.9 
Philippines 5.4 
Ukraine 5.2 
Estonia 5.2 
Cuba 5.0 
Belarus 4.9 
Thailand 4.8 
Suriname 4.6 
Laos 4.6 
Georgia 4.3 
Martinique 4.2 

And 

  The United States 4.2 

ALL the countries above America have 100% gun bans 


After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. – William S. Burroughs.

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This is an interesting set of facts… — 10 Comments

  1. This is a wonderful list of vacation spots to be avoided at all costs – and maybe some that are not vacation spots – Greenland – really?

  2. Comparing ourselves (USA) to europe is remarkably white Eurocentric and ignores the nearly or over 50% of the population that does not meet that description.
    A mixed population composed of remnant native population (after introduction of european diseases), continual waves of europeans every time the economy crashes over there or has a war, sub saharan africans brought as plantation slaves and several waves of asians starting in the mid 1800’s. This describes Brazil just as well as it does the USA

  3. Stephen/Gaffer/CP- Yeah, sad isn’t…

    Anne- Been to Greenland, NOT a vacation spot… Just sayin…

    WSF- Isn’t it though…

    erico- Talk to the WHO, THEY compiled it not me…

  4. Though many countries in the list have gun bans or heavy restrictions they don’t all ethe philipines