More Civilians Killed Last Year in One Mexican Border Town Than All Afghanistan

(CNSNews.com) - More civilians were killed last year in Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican city across the border from El Paso, Texas, than were killed in all of Afghanistan.

There were 3,111 civilians murdered in the city of Juarez in 2010 and 2,421 in the entire country of Afghanistan.

On a per capita basis, a civilian was 30 times more likely to be murdered last year in Juarez, where there are 1,328,017 inhabitants according to Mexico’s 2010 census , than in Afghanistan, where there are 29,121,286 people according to the CIA World Factbook .