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Acquitted	188		[41st of 30]
Assaults	22,127		[23rd of 49]
Burglaries	9,866		[35th of 38]
Car thefts	792		[45th of 46]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	45.89 %		[2nd of 39]
Illicit drugs transshipment point for moderate amounts of methaqualone, small amounts of heroin, and cocaine bound for southern Africa and possibly Europe; a poorly developed financial infrastructure coupled with a government commitment to combating money laundering make it an unattractive venue for money launderers; major consumer of cannabis
Jails	52		[25th of 80]
Manslaughters	31		[28th of 42]
Murders	797		[19th of 49]
Police	12,802		[31st of 47]
Prisoners	13,173 prisoners		[57th of 168]
Prisoners > Female	1.5%		[124th of 134]
Prisoners > Per capita	121 per 100,000 people		[70th of 164]
Rapes	300		[43rd of 50]
Robberies	2,699		[39th of 47]
Software piracy rate	82%		[21st of 107]
Total crimes	59,426		[43rd of 50]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation Zambia is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation; many Zambian child laborers, particularly those in the agriculture, domestic service, and fishing sectors, are also victims of human trafficking; Zambian women, lured by false employment or marriage offers abroad, are trafficked to South Africa via Zimbabwe and to Europe via Malawi for sexual exploitation; Zambia is a transit point for regional trafficking of women and children, particularly from Angola to Namibia and from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to South Africa for agricultural labor
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating Tier 2 Watch List - Zambia is on the Tier 2 Watch List for failing to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking, particularly in regard to its inability to bring alleged traffickers to justice through prosecutions and convictions; unlike 2006, there were no new prosecutions or convictions of alleged traffickers in 2007; government efforts to protect victims of trafficking remained extremely limited throughout the year
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	60.4		[12th of 143]

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