NationMaster - Bangladeshi Crime statistics

> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	39.08 %	[2nd of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	57.62 %	[1st of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights	82.98 %	[1st of 39]
Executions	6 executions	[14th of 22]
Illicit drugs transit country for illegal drugs produced in neighboring countries
Prisoners	74,170 prisoners	[16th of 168]
Prisoners > Female	2.8%	[96th of 134]
Prisoners > Per capita	50 per 100,000 people	[131st of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	60.3%	[19th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	288.5%	[3rd of 128]
Software piracy rate	92%	[2nd of 107]
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	33	[28th of 143]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; Amnesty International; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; 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); International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study; Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets Ray Fisman Edward Miguel Columbia University and NBER University of California, Berkeley and NBER 2006

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Bangladesh, People's Republic of Bangladesh

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