{"id":1450669,"date":"2024-01-15T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1450669"},"modified":"2024-01-15T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T15:45:00","slug":"ecuadors-homicide-rate-is-skyrocketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/ecuadors-homicide-rate-is-skyrocketing\/1450669\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador&#8217;s Homicide Rate Is Skyrocketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Ecuador&#8217;s Homicide Rate Is Skyrocketing<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><strong>Homicide rates are skyrocketing in Ecuador with official figures recording a death count of 4,800 in 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/homicide.igarape.org.br\/\">data<\/a>\u00a0from the Ecuadorian Ministry of Interior, published by the Rio de Janeiro based think tank, the Igarap\u00e9 Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/31557\/number-of-homicides-per-100000-people-in-selected-countries\/\"> as Statista&#8217;s Anna Fleck notes,<\/a> according to the Ecuadorian government\u2019s latest estimates though, <strong>violent deaths are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/what-is-happening-ecuador-2024-01-10\">reported to have soared to 8,008 in 2023<\/a>,<\/strong> indicating that the situation is by now significantly worse than the figures currently displayed by the institute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The following chart tries to capture a sense of where Ecuador sits within the context of its Latin American neighbors. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/31557\/number-of-homicides-per-100000-people-in-selected-countries\/\" title=\"Infographic: Ecuador's Homicide Rate Is Skyrocketing | Statista\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Venezuela\u2019s homicide rate was the highest of the region in 2022 at 40.4 people killed per 100,000 inhabitants &#8211; that&#8217;s even with a fall of 20 percent since the 2019 figure, when it had been a rate of 50.6 per 100,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>As indicated here, <strong>many of the countries in Latin America have seen decreases between 2019 and 2022, with Ecuador as an outlier for its 288% increase<\/strong> from 6.9 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in 2019 up to 26.7 deaths per 100,000 in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Mon, 01\/15\/2024 &#8211; 05:45<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/ecuadors-homicide-rate-skyrocketing\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador&#8217;s Homicide Rate Is Skyrocketing Homicide rates are skyrocketing in Ecuador with official figures recording a death count of 4,800 in 2022. This is according&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}