VIEW DATA: Totals Per capita
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Showing latest available data. Rank Countries Amount
# 1 United States: 11,877,218
# 2 United Kingdom: 6,523,706
# 3 Germany: 6,507,394
# 4 France: 3,771,850
# 5 Russia: 2,952,370
# 6 Japan: 2,853,739
# 7 South Africa: 2,683,849
# 8 Canada: 2,516,918
# 9 Italy: 2,231,550
# 10 India: 1,764,630
# 11 Korea, South: 1,543,220
# 12 Mexico: 1,516,029
# 13 Netherlands: 1,422,863
# 14 Poland: 1,404,229
# 15 Argentina: 1,340,529
# 16 Sweden: 1,234,784
# 17 Belgium: 973,548
# 18 Spain: 923,271
# 19 Chile: 593,997
# 20 Thailand: 565,108
# 21 Ukraine: 553,594
# 22 Austria: 552,411
# 23 Finland: 520,194
# 24 Denmark: 491,026
# 25 New Zealand: 427,230
# 26 Hungary: 420,782
# 27 Czech Republic: 372,341
# 28 Zimbabwe: 351,153
# 29 Norway: 330,071
# 30 Romania: 312,204
# 31 Switzerland: 307,631
# 32 Turkey: 286,482
# 33 Morocco: 283,702
# 34 Venezuela: 236,165
# 35 Portugal: 218,360
# 36 Colombia: 214,192
# 37 Malaysia: 167,173
# 38 Peru: 161,621
# 39 Bulgaria: 148,915
# 40 Uruguay: 134,010
# 41 Belarus: 132,867
# 42 Tunisia: 130,375
# 43 Slovakia: 107,373
# 44 Greece: 102,783
# 45 Croatia: 101,853
# 46 Lithuania: 92,646
# 47 Philippines: 85,776
# 48 Saudi Arabia: 84,599
# 49 Slovenia: 81,697
# 50 Ireland: 81,274
# 51 Hong Kong: 80,592
# 52 Iceland: 60,242
# 53 Zambia: 59,426
# 54 Estonia: 57,799
# 55 Latvia: 49,329
# 56 El Salvador: 44,762
# 57 Costa Rica: 40,263
# 58 Jamaica: 39,188
# 59 Kyrgyzstan: 38,620
# 60 Moldova: 36,302
# 61 Mauritius: 35,943
# 62 Bolivia: 31,138
# 63 Luxembourg: 26,046
# 64 Yemen: 24,066
# 65 Panama: 21,058
# 66 Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 19,814
# 67 Kuwait: 19,350
# 68 Burma: 18,301
# 69 Malta: 17,023
# 70 Azerbaijan: 15,520
# 71 Georgia: 15,029
# 72 Papua New Guinea: 13,292
# 73 Cyprus: 13,023
# 74 Armenia: 12,048
# 75 Oman: 11,782
# 76 Nepal: 8,872
# 77 Dominica: 7,857
# 78 Maldives: 7,026
# 79 Qatar: 5,838
# 80 Albania: 5,303
# 81 Seychelles: 4,297
# 82 Montserrat: 751
Total: 63,531,202
Weighted average: 774,770.8
DEFINITION: Note: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
SOURCE: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention)
What these stats do show is that Saudi Arabia does not have the lowest crime rate in the world - it makes me wonder what is so special about Montserrat and what they are doing so right, given that their figure is 50 times smaller than the second lowest one!