Most frequent crimes in El Salvador by type 2024

Between June 2023 and May 2024, the most frequent crimes in El Salvador were thefts, with almost 7,000 cases. In total, the public prosecutors of El Salvador reported 15,620 high impact crimes, a considerable decrease when compared to the previous year. The number of offenses in some of the main categories of property crimes is significantly lower than in other years, for example, the number of thefts or robberies of vehicles transporting goods decreased by almost 60 percent in 2020 when compared with 2019. With these numbers, it is no surprise that the approval rate of the current government is over 85 percent. The falling homicide rateIn 2015, the homicide rate in El Salvador was over 100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the highest figures in the world. Nonetheless, during the past years, the rate dropped to less than 20 homicides. El Salvador lived through two of the highest days of violence, with over 74 homicides on March 25th and 26th, 2022. Two days after, El Salvador's government declared a state of emergency to counter gang activity and try to end the wave of violence. Once more, the population seems to back up the government, with over 75 percent of Salvadorans declaring that they feel safe with the current emergency state. The economic cost of violenceViolence and crime are two of the main problems society faces in El Salvador and the Central American region. In addition to the lack of security, it also generates economic losses, the cost of violence accounted for over 8,849 million USD in 2022, which is over 15 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country, almost double the global average. This figure represents the expenditure of a country to deal with the outcome of violence, contain it, and prevent it from spreading and continuing.

在2023年6月至2024年5月期间，萨尔瓦多最常见的犯罪类型为盗窃，案件数量接近7000起。总体而言，萨尔瓦多检察官办公室报告了15,620起高影响力犯罪，与上一年相比，这一数字有显著下降。在财产犯罪的一些主要类别中，犯罪数量与往年相比有显著降低，例如，与2019年相比，2020年运输货物的盗窃或抢劫车辆的数量减少了近60%。基于这些数据，当前政府获得超过85%的民众支持率也就不足为奇。随着谋杀率的下降，2015年，萨尔瓦多的谋杀率超过每10万人100起，位居世界最高水平之一。然而，在过去几年中，谋杀率已降至低于20起。2022年3月25日和26日，萨尔瓦多经历了两个暴力高峰日，共发生74起谋杀案。两天后，萨尔瓦多政府宣布进入紧急状态，以应对帮派活动并试图结束暴力浪潮。再次，民众似乎支持政府，超过75%的萨尔瓦多人表示，他们在当前的紧急状态下感到安全。暴力与犯罪是萨尔瓦多及中美洲地区社会面临的主要问题之二。除了缺乏安全之外，它还造成了经济损失，2022年，暴力成本高达88.49亿美元，占国家国内生产总值（GDP）的超过15%，几乎是全球平均水平的两倍。这一数字代表了国家为应对暴力后果、遏制其蔓延和持续所付出的支出。