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Central America and the Caribbean > Nicaragua > Crime

NICARAGUAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 39.16 % Time series [8th of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 65.71 % Time series [4th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights 60.41 % Time series [4th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 33.19 % Time series [2nd of 39]
Death penalty > Abolition date 1,979 [50th of 64]
Death penalty > Last executed 1,930 [36th of 55]
Illicit drugs
transshipment point for cocaine destined for the US and transshipment point for arms-for-drugs dealing
Murders committed by youths 139 [30th of 73]
Murders committed by youths per capita 7.3 [22nd of 57]
Prisoners 7,198 prisoners [79th of 168]
Prisoners > Per capita 143 per 100,000 people [63rd of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 30.8% [71st of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 113% [72nd of 128]
Software piracy rate 80% [26th of 107]
United States extradition treaties > Citation 35 Stat. 1869.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed March 1, 1905
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force July 14, 2007
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 4.9 [85th of 143]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; Last updated: 01/04/03; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; 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: Nicaragua, Republic of Nicaragua, Republica de Nicaragua

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