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Acquitted
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18,971 |
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[12th of 30]
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Assaults
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25,219 |
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[22nd of 49]
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Burglaries
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13,375 |
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[31st of 38]
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Car thefts
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33,135 |
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[15th of 46]
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Death penalty > Abolition date
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1,910 |
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[61st of 64]
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Death penalty > Last executed
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1,909 |
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[39th of 55]
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Gun violence > Homicides > % homicides with firearms
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45.2092
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[3rd of 32]
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Gun violence > Homicides > Overall homicide rate > per 100,000 pop.
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114.5083
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[2nd of 32]
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Illicit drugs
illicit producer of coca, opium poppy, and cannabis; world's leading coca cultivator with 167,000 hectares in coca cultivation in 2007, a 6% increase over 2006, producing a potential of 535 metric tons of pure cocaine; the world's largest producer of coca derivatives; supplies cocaine to most of the US market and the great majority of other international drug markets; in 2007, aerial eradication dispensed herbicide to treat over 153,000 hectares with another 67,000 hectares manually eradicated, but aggressive replanting on the part of coca growers means Colombia remains a key producer; a significant portion of non-US narcotics proceeds are either laundered or invested in Colombia through the black market peso exchange; important supplier of heroin to the US market; opium poppy cultivation is estimated to have fallen 25% between 2006 and 2007 with a corresponding estimated 27% decline in the yield of pure heroin to 1.9 metric tons |
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Jails
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168 |
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[18th of 80]
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Murders
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26,539 |
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[3rd of 49]
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Murders committed by youths
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12,834 |
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[2nd of 73]
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Murders with firearms
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21,898 |
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[2nd of 36]
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Police
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91,155 |
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[12th of 47]
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Prisoners
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54,034 prisoners |
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[28th of 168]
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Prisoners > Per capita
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126 per 100,000 people |
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[69th of 164]
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Rapes
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1,861 |
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[19th of 50]
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Robberies
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24,537 |
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[15th of 47]
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Software piracy rate
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58% |
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[61st of 107]
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Total crimes
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214,192 |
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[31st of 50]
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SOURCES: 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); Last updated: 01/04/03; Wikipedia: Gun violence
; 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); World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Colombia, Republic of Colombia, Republica de Colombia, columbia
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