Global Burden of Armed Violence 2011: Lethal Encounters - Slideshow

2. AN ESTIMATED 526,000 PEOPLE DIE VIOLENTLY EVERY YEAR ... ... COUNTLESS MORE BEAR THE PHYSICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCARS OF VIOLENCE .

3. LEVELS OF LETHAL VIOLENCE AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 1986-2009

4. HOW VIOLENCE DISRUPTS DEVELOPMENT The gap in poverty is widening between countries affected by violence and others. Source: World Bank, World Development Report 2011

5. GLOBAL PATTERNS IN LETHAL VIOLENCE

6. AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO LETHAL VIOLENCE THE LINES BETWEEN DIFFERENT FORMS OF VIOLENCE – POLITICAL , ECONOMIC AND INTER-PERSONAL – ARE INCREASINGLY BLURRED. ARMED ACTORS MAY PERPETRATE DIFFERENT FORMS OF VIOLENCE SIMULTANEOUSLY.

7. AVERAGE ANNUAL DEATHS RATES PER 100,000 2004-2009 THESE 14 COUNTRIES ARE HOME TO ONLY 4.6 PERCENT OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION. . 58 COUNTRIES HAVE VIOLENT DEATH RATES GREATER THAN 10 PER 100,000 . . 14 COUNTRIES HAVE VIOLENT DEATH RATES GREATER THAN 30 PER 100,000 . THESE 14 COUNTRIES ARE HOME TO ONLY 4.6 PERCENT OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION… … BUT ACCOUNT FOR ONE- QUARTER OF THE WORLD’S VIOLENT DEATHS .

8. COUNTRIES WITH AVERAGE ANNUAL VIOLENT DEATH RATES OF MORE THAN 30 PER 100,000 POPULATION 2004–09 MOST OF THE STATES WORST AFFECTED BY ARMED VIOLENCE ARE NOT AT WAR.

9. DISAGGREGATING THE GLOBAL BURDEN OF LETHAL VIOLENCE NINE OUT OF TEN VIOLENT DEATHS OCCUR IN NON-CONFLICT AREAS.

10. VIOLENCE IS UNEVENLY DISTRIBUTED WITHIN − AS WELL AS BETWEEN − STATES.

11. ORGANIZED CRIME-RELATED HOMICIDE RATES MEXICO 2007 2008 2009 2010

12. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF LETHAL VIOLENCE VARY FROM REGION TO REGION.

13. HOMICIDE CONTEXT BY GEOGRAPHIC REGION

14. PROPORTION OF HOMICIDES COMMITTED WITH FIREARMS 2009 OR LATEST AVAILABLE YEAR Source: UNODC calculations

15. PROPORTION OF HOMICIDES COMMITTED WITH FIREARMS AND CASES SOLVED Source: UNODC calculations

16. 66,000 WOMEN ARE VIOLENTLY KILLED EACH YEAR .

17. NUMBER OF FEMICIDE VICTIMS FOR EVERY 100 MALE HOMICIDE VICTIMS IN 83 COUNTRIES 2004-09

18. ARMED VIOLENCE HINDERS DEVELOPMENT.

19. GREATER INEQUALITY; HIGHER LEVELS OF VIOLENCE Source: UNODC calculations

20. WEAK RULE OF LAW IS ASSOCIATED WITH HIGHER LEVELS OF VIOLENCE 2009 OR LATEST AVAILABLE YEAR Source: UNODC calculations

21. INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO PREVENT AND REDUCE ARMED VIOLENCE EXIST.

22. CATEGORIZING ACTIVITIES TO PREVENT AND REDUCE ARMED VIOLENCE Source: OECD 2011