El Salvador continues to draw global attention after being ranked among the safest countries in the world, according to a new report by @stats_feed. The report highlights the nation’s historic drop in homicide rates, projecting fewer than one homicide per 100,000 inhabitants in 2025 — a milestone for a country once considered one of the most violent on Earth.
President Nayib Bukele celebrated the achievement while openly criticizing the silence of international human rights organizations, which have not acknowledged the sharp decline in violence as a human rights victory.
“It’s clear that so-called ‘human rights’ organizations don’t consider not being killed, raped, or assaulted to be human rights; otherwise, they’d be praising us for achieving exactly that,” Bukele stated after reviewing the data.
The report outlines the steady decline in El Salvador’s homicide rate over the past decade:
- 2015: 106.3
- 2016: 84.1
- 2017: 83.0
- 2018: 53.1
- 2019: 38.0
- 2020: 21.2
- 2021: 18.1
- 2022: 7.8
- 2023: 2.4
- 2024: 1.9
- 2025: ~<1 (projected)
The President emphasized that protecting life is the most essential human right, and questioned why organizations claiming to defend those rights have ignored one of the most notable public safety improvements in the region.
The dramatic reduction in violence has positioned El Salvador as a leader in crime prevention in Latin America, thanks to a series of state-led strategies and security reforms under Bukele’s administration.