NationMaster - Nigerian Crime statistics

Executions	6 executions	[16th of 22]
Illicit drugs a transit point for heroin and cocaine intended for European, East Asian, and North American markets; consumer of amphetamines; safe haven for Nigerian narcotraffickers operating worldwide; major money-laundering center; massive corruption and criminal activity; Nigeria has improved some anti-money-laundering controls, resulting in its removal from the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF's) Noncooperative Countries and Territories List in June 2006; Nigeria's anti-money-laundering regime continues to be monitored by FATF
Prisoners	40,447 prisoners	[32nd of 168]
Prisoners > Female	1.9%	[113rd of 134]
Prisoners > Per capita	33 per 100,000 people	[149th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	63%	[17th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	101.5%	[89th of 128]
Software piracy rate	82%	[19th of 107]
United States extradition treaties > Citation	47 Stat. 2122.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed	December 22, 1931
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force	June 24, 1935
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	58.6	[15th of 143]

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SOURCES: Amnesty International; 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; 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: Nigeria, Federal Republic of Nigeria

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