NationMaster - Colombian Crime statistics

Death penalty > Abolition date	1,910	[61st of 64]
Death penalty > Last executed	1,909	[39th of 55]
Murders committed by youths per capita	84.4	[1st of 0]
Murders with firearms	21,898	[2nd of 36]
Police	91,155	[12th of 47]
Prisoners	54,034 prisoners	[28th of 0]
Prisoners > Female	6.1%	[27th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners	0.6%	[76th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita	126 per 100,000 people	[69th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	41.1%	[45th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	136.5%	[45th of 128]
Rapes	1,861	[19th of 50]
Robberies	24,537	[15th of 47]
Sentence Length	137	[1st of 21]
Software piracy rate	58%	[61st of 107]
Total crimes	214,192	[31st of 50]
United States extradition treaties > Citation	TIAS.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed	September 14, 1979
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force	March 4, 1982
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	0	[136th of 143]

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SOURCES: Last updated: 01/04/03; World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; 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); 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; Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties ; 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: Colombia, Republic of Colombia, Republica de Colombia, columbia

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COMMENTARY

Richard (CA, USA)
14th August 2007

I am confused with some of the stars. Clearly, a place like Columbia, or Russia should rank much worse in crimes per capita than say Finland, or New Zealand, no?
How is the total crimes per capita stat derived and why would a place like Chile be ranked so poorly compared to a violent place like South Africa?

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