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The Honduran and Salvadoran child migrants are from some of the most violent regions in those countries. San Pedro Sula in Honduras is the world’s murder capital, with a homicide rate of 187 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2013 driven by a surge in gang and drug trafficking violence. For the entire country Honduras’s murder rate was 90 per 100,000 in 2012, the highest in the world. In 2011, El Salvador was not far behind, at 70, ranking second in terms of homicides in Latin America then. Even with a significant drop in the murder rate from 70 in 2011 to 41 in 2012, El Salvador is only surpassed by Honduras, Venezuela and Belize in the entire world.
Honduras Leads World With Highest Homicide Rate  | Homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in countries with large  | numbers of unaccompanied children apprehended in USS  | 90. 4  | Honduras  | 50.9  | 41.2  | El Sa Ivador  | 39.3  | 39.9  | 39.9 Guatemala  | 25.9  | 21.5 Mexico  | 21.5 Mexico  | 10.3  | 2006  | 2010 2012  | 2000  | 2002  | 2004  | 2008  | Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Homicide Statistics  | 2013  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 