Percentage of all homicide victims who are women.
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Honduras: 6%
Nicaragua: 7%
Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela: 8%
South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong: 53%
And look at their respective birth rates.
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Clarissa's Blog 
That’s quite a difference! It doesn’t look as meaningful when you stick it up next to each of those countries’ overall murder rates though:
Rates per 100,000 inhabitants:
Honduras: 31.442
Nicaragua: 11.006
Colombia: 25.269
Ecuador: 45.723
Venezuela: 12.607
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S. Korea: 0.531
Japan: .233
Hong Kong: 0.401
So… as a woman, I’d still rather visit east asia than Ecuador. I admit I have not done the math, but the most obvious explanation is that countries like Korea, Japan, and HK have reduced violent crime so much that an impressive number of the remaining murders are domestic violence, which is pretty universal, and not preventable by the same measures that are used to stop gang activity, violent robbery, drug dealing, etc. that result in proportionally more deaths of men.
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