A crime rate is a measure of the number of crimes committed in a given area over a specific period of time....CONTINUE READING THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
It is usually expressed as the number of crimes per 1,000 people per year. For example, if a city has a population of 100,000 people and 1,000 crimes are committed in that city in a year, the crime rate would be 10 per 1,000 people.
Crimes are classified based on severity, such as violent crimes (murder, assault, robbery), property crimes (burglary, theft, vandalism), and white-collar crimes (fraud, embezzlement).
Below are the top 50 most criminal countries in the world, based on data compiled by Numbeo in 2023:
Venezuela
Papua New Guinea
Afghanistan
Haiti
South Africa
Honduras
Trinidad and Tobago
Syria
Guyana
Jamaica
Peru
Somalia
Brazil
Nigeria
Angola
Namibia
Cameroon
Argentina
Mozambique
Bangladesh
El Salvador
Bolivia
Puerto Rico
US Virgin Islands
Dominican Republic
Colombia
Ecuador
Zimbabwe
Libya
Bahamas
Guatemala
Chile
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Fiji
Uganda
Maldives
France
Tanzania
Mexico
Kyrgyzstan
Costa Rica
Mongolia
Cambodia
Botswana
Belize
Uruguay
Malaysia
Belarus
Algeria…CONTINUE READING>>
