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Middle East > Lebanon > Crime

LEBANESE CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 22.95 % ... [1st of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 64.87 % ... [1st of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights 69.77 % ... [4th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 56.09 % ... [1st of 39]
Executions 2 executions [25th of 22]
Illicit drugs
cannabis cultivation dramatically reduced to 2,500 hectares in 2002 despite continued significant cannabis consumption; opium poppy cultivation minimal; small amounts of Latin American cocaine and Southwest Asian heroin transit country on way to European markets and for Middle Eastern consumption; money laundering of drug proceeds fuels concern that extremists are benefiting from drug trafficking
Illicit drugs
cannabis cultivation dramatically reduced to 2,500 hectares in 2002 despite continued significant cannabis consumption; opium poppy cultivation minimal; small amounts of Latin American cocaine and Southwest Asian heroin transit country on way to European markets and for Middle Eastern consumption; money laundering of drug proceeds fuels concern that extremists are benefiting from drug trafficking
Prisoners 5,535 prisoners [88th of 0]
Prisoners > Female 2.7% [98th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners 36.1% [13th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita 146 per 100,000 people [60th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 55.2% [28th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 115.3% [67th of 128]
Software piracy rate 73% [39th of 107]
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 1.3 [114th of 143]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; 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); 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: Lebanon, Lebanese Republic, Al Jumhuriyah al Lubnaniyah, Lubnan

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