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Africa > Egypt > Crime

EGYPTIAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 9.43 % ... [7th of 38]
Acquitted 174,230 [4th of 30]
Convicted 3,576,010 [1st of 34]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 50.26 % ... [2nd of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 24.72 % ... [5th of 39]
Executions 48 executions [5th of 22]
Illicit drugs
transit point for cannabis, heroin, and opium moving to Europe, Israel, and North Africa; transit stop for Nigerian drug couriers; concern as money laundering site due to lax enforcement of financial regulations
Illicit drugs
transit point for cannabis, heroin, and opium moving to Europe, Israel, and North Africa; transit stop for Nigerian drug couriers; concern as money laundering site due to lax enforcement of financial regulations
Jails 43 [27th of 0]
Prisoners 61,845 prisoners [9th of 0]
Prisoners > Per capita 0 per 100,000 people [160th of 164]
Software piracy rate 60% [56th of 107]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Egypt is a transit country for women trafficked from Eastern Europe to Israel for the purpose of sexual exploitation; these women generally arrive as tourists and are subsequently trafficked through the Sinai Desert by Bedouin tribes; men and women from sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are believed to be trafficked through the Sinai Desert to Israel and Europe for labor exploitation; some Egyptian children from rural areas are trafficked within the country to work as domestic servants or laborers in the agriculture industry
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Egypt is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to show evidence of increasing efforts to address trafficking over the past year, particularly in the area of law enforcement
United States extradition treaties > Citation
19 Stat. 572; TS 270; 10 Bevans 642.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed August 11, 1874
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force April 22, 1875
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 139.6 [2nd of 143]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; 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); Amnesty International; 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); 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: Egypt, Arab Republic of Egypt, Jumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah, Misr

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