{"id":61072,"date":"2014-04-17T15:15:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T19:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=61072"},"modified":"2014-04-23T13:51:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T17:51:48","slug":"bahamas-listed-amongst-ten-most-violent-countries-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/04\/bahamas-listed-amongst-ten-most-violent-countries-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Listed Amongst Ten Most Violent Countries In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_61074\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61074\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/global-homicide-victims.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61074 \" alt=\"global-homicide-victims\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/global-homicide-victims.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">click to enlarge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The United Nations&#8217; latest report on crime shows The Bahamas listed within the ten most violent countries in the world for homicide.<\/p>\n<p>In the global picture, intentional homicide caused the deaths of almost half a million people (437,000) across the world in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>More than a third of those (36%) occurred in the Americas, 31% in Africa and 28% in Asia &#8211;\u00a0 while Europe (5%) and Oceania (0.3%) accounted for the lowest shares of homicide at the regional level.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UN\u2019s data, around 750 million people live in countries with high homicide rates, meaning that almost half of all murders occur in countries that make up 11% of the global population.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, 3 billion people live in countries with low homicide rates, where murders on a declining trend path.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61073\" alt=\"bahamas-top-homicide-rate-un-report\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bahamas-top-homicide-rate-un-report.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"516\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">[Source: businesstech.co.za]<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations&#8217; latest report on crime shows The Bahamas listed within the ten most violent countries in the world for homicide. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":61074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[31,226,33,73],"class_list":["post-61072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-crime","tag-murder","tag-tourism","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}