NationMaster - Uruguayan Crime statistics

Assaults	10,544	[24th of 49]
Burglaries	11,184	[26th of 38]
Car thefts	4,517	[24th of 46]
Death penalty > Abolition date	1,907	[62nd of 64]
Drug offences	857 per 100,000 people	[37th of 46]
Gun violence > Homicides > % homicides with firearms	35.2941	[10th of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Firearm homicide rate > per 100,000 pop.	2.5172	[11th of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Overall homicide rate > per 100,000 pop.	7.1321	[16th of 32]
Illicit drugs small-scale transit country for drugs mainly bound for Europe, often through sea-borne containers; law enforcement corruption; money laundering because of strict banking secrecy laws; weak border control along Brazilian frontier; increasing consumption of cocaine base and synthetic drugs
Kidnappings	8 kidnappings	[35th of 39]
Murders	217	[23rd of 49]
Murders committed by youths	36	[49th of 73]
Murders with firearms	109	[14th of 36]
Police	18,173	[28th of 47]
Prisoners	7,100 prisoners	[81st of 168]
Prisoners > Per capita	209 per 100,000 people	[36th of 164]
Rapes	303	[31st of 50]
Robberies	10,282	[14th of 47]
Software piracy rate	69%	[42nd of 107]
Total crimes	134,010	[25th 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); 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); World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Uruguay, Oriental Republic of Uruguay, Republica Oriental del Uruguay

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