NationMaster - Malagasy Crime statistics

> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	37.2 %	[2nd of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	46.08 %	[1st of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights	44.6 %	[15th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	33.45 %	[1st of 39]
Illicit drugs illicit producer of cannabis (cultivated and wild varieties) used mostly for domestic consumption; transshipment point for heroin
Prisoners	20,109 prisoners	[43rd of 168]
Prisoners > Female	3.1%	[90th of 134]
Prisoners > Per capita	130 per 100,000 people	[65th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	65.4%	[15th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	169.2%	[21st of 128]
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	8.7	[69th of 143]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; 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); 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: Madagascar, Republic of Madagascar, Republique de Madagascar

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