El Salvador now boasts an average of 1.9 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, reaffirming its status as the safest country in the Western Hemisphere. President Nayib Bukele shared this statistic early this morning, highlighting the nation’s impressive security improvements.
The president cited a police report marking yet another day in September 2024 without homicides, underscoring the ongoing safety in the country. Following Bukele’s post, the World of Statistics account on social media platform X responded by sharing homicide averages in El Salvador over the past nine years.
President Bukele seized this opportunity to emphasize the current figure of 1.9 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, positioning El Salvador as the safest country in the region.
These numbers come as El Salvador surpasses 700 days without a recorded homicide, attributed to initiatives like the Territorial Control Plan, implemented in 2019, and the state of exception, approved in 2022 and still in effect.