WASHINGTON, D.C. Aug. 20 (DPI) – USAFacts this month pulled mortality data from The Centers for Disease Control and found that, despite pockets of stubbornly high rates of homicide, most cities in America have seen a slow but steady decline in homicides rates, which spiked during the pandemic.

Shelby County, Tenn., the county of Memphis, saw 372 murders in 2023, or 40.9 homicides per 100,000 of population, according to CDC data. That per-capita rate puts Memphis among the murder-prone in the world. Cities in Ecuador and Jamaica have murder rates of 145 per 100,000, the highest measured murder rates.

Still, murder rates across the US were lower in 2023 than two years prior.