<Li> 9 (15%) permit its use for ordinary crimes, but have not used it for at least 10 years and are believed to have a policy or established practice of not carrying out executions, or it is under a moratorium . </Li> <Li> 2 (3%) retain it for crimes committed in exceptional circumstances (such as in time of war). </Li> <Li> 23 (38%) have abolished it . </Li> <P> The information above is accurate as of 2017, when Mongolia abolished the death penalty, and does not include Taiwan, which is not currently a UN member; Taiwan practises the death penalty by shooting, and conducted one execution in 2016 . Hong Kong and Macau are also listed below but not included in the figures above as they do not have UN membership separate from China . </P>

How many countries in the world allow capital punishment