NationMaster - Namibian Crime statistics

> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	20.55 %	[2nd of 38]
Car thefts	60	[45th of 46]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	9.33 %	[7th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights	24.95 %	[26th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	0.61 %	[16th of 39]
Death penalty > Abolition date	1,990	[33rd of 64]
Death penalty > Last executed	1,988	[10th of 55]
Manslaughters	38	[25th of 42]
Murders	126	[35th of 49]
Prisoners	4,814 prisoners	[93rd of 168]
Prisoners > Female	1.8%	[114th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners	5.5%	[43rd of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita	267 per 100,000 people	[27th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	5.2%	[134th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	126%	[54th of 128]
Rapes	286	[32nd of 50]
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	4.2	[89th of 143]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; 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; 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; 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); 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: Namibia, Republic of Namibia

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