- Who
- Domenican Republic, Spain, United States of America
- What
- 59 people
- Where
- Not Applicable ()
- When
- 2004
In a study published in 2009 in the American Economics Journal: Macroeconomics entitled: “Hit or Miss? The Effects of Assassinations on Institutions and War”, the authors Benjamin F Jones and Benjamin A Olken looked at a dataset of all assassinations of primary national leaders between 1875 and 2004. There were 3 countries that shared top place for the number of assassinations in that period; namely the Dominican Republic, Spain and the United States with three each. In all the 59 fatal assassinations cited, the most popular weapon was by far the gun, which featured in 74.6% of the killings. In fact, there was an assassination of a world leader in nearly two out of every three years from 1950.
