Title: Murder Rate By Country - WorldAtlas
Headings: Murder Rate By Country
Murder Rate By Country
Countries With The Highest Murder Rates
1. El Salvador (61.8 per 100,000)
2. Jamaica (57 per 100,000)
3. Venezuela (56.3 per 100,000)
4. Honduras (41.7 per 100,000)
5. Lesotho (41.2 per 100,000)
Countries With The Lowest Murder Rates
Factors Affecting High Murder Rates
Preventive Measures To Be Taken
Murder Rates By Country 2020

Content: Intoxication increases the risk of being involved (either as the guilty party or the victim) in a murder. Countries that are experiencing political turmoil and violent conflict are also more likely to experience high murder rates, as is the case with El Salvador, which is still recovering from its civil war. Preventive Measures To Be Taken
To reduce these climbing murder rates, governments must focus on preventive measures. Given its connection to poverty and social issues, preventive crime policies need to focus on more than just punishments. Without including economic and social development strategies in local policy, violent crimes are likely to continue. Additionally, these policies must target the most at-risk populations. As this article has discussed, murder rates are highest among young males and in urban areas. Successful initiatives would focus on urban-living youth and involve other community members to break the vicious cycle of poverty and violence. Many scholars also point to the availability of firearms as a significant contributing factor to homicide rates, saying that restricting gun access would help reduce murders. The majority of murders throughout the Americas are committed with guns.