NationMaster - Beninese Crime statistics

> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	47.21 %	...	[1st of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	81.73 %	...	[1st of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights	65.28 %	...	[1st of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	48.73 %	...	[1st of 39]
Illicit drugs transshipment point used by Nigerian traffickers for narcotics destined for Western Europe; vulnerable to money laundering due to poorly enforced financial regulations
Illicit drugs transshipment point used by Nigerian traffickers for narcotics destined for Western Europe; vulnerable to money laundering due to poorly enforced financial regulations
Prisoners	4,961 prisoners		[92nd of 0]
Prisoners > Female	3.5%		[81st of 134]
Prisoners > Per capita	81 per 100,000 people		[104th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	64.5%		[16th of 143]
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	49.8		[17th of 143]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; 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; 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: Benin, Republic of Benin, Republique du Benin

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