Jamaica has 6th highest murder rate worldwide – UN report
KINGSTON, Jamaica –A new report released by the United Nation’s Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) lists Jamaica as having the sixth highest homicide rate in the world.
The release, issued on Thursday said almost half a million homicides were reported worldwide in 2013.
“Globally, some 80 per cent of homicide victims and 95 per cent of perpetrators are men. Almost 15 per cent of all homicides stem from domestic violence (63,600). However, the overwhelming majority – almost 70 per cent – of domestic violence fatalities are women (43,600),” the UNODC said.
According to the study, almost half of the reported murders were largely concentrated in the Americas and Africa.
The UNODC listed the ten countries with the highest homicide rates in the world as follows:
1) Honduras
2) Venezuela
3) Belize
4) El Salvador
5) Guatemala
6) Jamaica
7) Swaziland
8) St Kitts and Nevis
9) South Africa
10) Colombia
The UNODC defines a homicide as the unlawful death, purposefully inflicted on a person by another person.
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