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Martel, Metzi. 2016 ‘Number of Registered and Illicit Firearms in El Salvador (2003-2013).’ InSight Crime (Analysis) In World's Most Violent Country, 30 New Firearms Registered Daily. Medellín: InSight Crime. 10 March

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The inhabitants of the world's most violent country have been spending more than $1.5 million on guns annually. Although the market's total size and the number of guns in civilian hands is not entirely certain, even just taking the quantity of guns imported legally in the last 10 years indicate there would be enough for one in every fifty residents to have one.

In reality, the total supply of guns is much greater when taking into account the hundreds of thousands that were already flooding the country at the beginning of this century. In 2003, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) estimated there were 450,000 firearms distributed among the civilian population, about half of which were illegal.

A report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published in 2013, titled "Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and the Caribbean," cited an estimate that some 360,000 military firearms were not turned in after El Salvador's civil war. The same report noted that, in 2011, El Salvador had 600,000 firearms, only 100,000 of which were the property of the government. The remaining 500,000 were unregistered.

ID: Q16265

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