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Acquitted
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14,479 |
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[7th of 30]
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Assault victims
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0.4% |
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[19th of 20]
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Assaults
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23,378 |
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[20th of 49]
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Car thefts
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30,560 |
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[13th of 46]
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Death penalty > Last executed
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1,849 |
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[41st of 55]
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Drug offences
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3,758 per 100,000 people |
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[25th of 46]
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Gun violence > Homicides > % homicides with firearms
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25.3776
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[14th of 32]
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Illicit drugs seizing record amounts of Latin American cocaine destined for Europe; a European gateway for Southwest Asian heroin; transshipment point for hashish from North Africa to Europe; consumer of Southwest Asian heroin |
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Kidnappings
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432 kidnappings |
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[7th of 39]
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Murders
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247 |
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[33rd of 49]
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Murders with firearms
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90 |
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[15th of 36]
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Police
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45,776 |
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[16th of 47]
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Prisoners
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13,918 prisoners |
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[27th of 168]
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Prisoners > Per capita
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130 per 100,000 people |
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[64th of 164]
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Rape victims
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0.2% |
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[18th of 20]
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Rapes
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433 |
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[29th of 50]
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Robberies
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17,362 |
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[13th of 47]
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Software piracy rate
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43% |
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[81st of 107]
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Total crime victims
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15.5% |
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[19th of 20]
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Total crimes
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218,360 |
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[23rd of 50]
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SOURCES: 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); UNICRI (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute). 2002. Correspondence on data on crime victims. March. Turin; 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); Last updated: 01/04/03; Wikipedia: Gun violence
; 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
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Portugal, Portuguese Republic, Republica Portuguesa
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