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Crime Statistics > Burglaries (per capita) (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount 
# 1   Australia: 21.7454 per 1,000 people 
# 2   Dominica: 18.7892 per 1,000 people 
# 3   Denmark: 18.3299 per 1,000 people 
# 4   Estonia: 17.4576 per 1,000 people 
# 5   Finland: 16.7697 per 1,000 people 
# 6   New Zealand: 16.2763 per 1,000 people 
# 7   United Kingdom: 13.8321 per 1,000 people 
# 8   Poland: 9.46071 per 1,000 people 
# 9   Canada: 8.94425 per 1,000 people 
# 10   South Africa: 8.89764 per 1,000 people 
# 11   Montserrat: 8.24323 per 1,000 people 
# 12   Iceland: 8.11156 per 1,000 people 
# 13   Switzerland: 8.06303 per 1,000 people 
# 14   Slovenia: 7.93734 per 1,000 people 
# 15   Czech Republic: 7.24841 per 1,000 people 
# 16   Hungary: 7.15849 per 1,000 people 
# 17   United States: 7.09996 per 1,000 people 
# 18   France: 6.11634 per 1,000 people 
# 19   Ireland: 5.73755 per 1,000 people 
# 20   Netherlands: 5.55531 per 1,000 people 
# 21   Bulgaria: 5.29597 per 1,000 people 
# 22   Slovakia: 4.6984 per 1,000 people 
# 23   Zimbabwe: 4.54568 per 1,000 people 
# 24   Portugal: 4.47927 per 1,000 people 
# 25   Latvia: 4.31048 per 1,000 people 
# 26   Belarus: 3.13718 per 1,000 people 
# 27   Seychelles: 2.79598 per 1,000 people 
# 28   Lithuania: 2.55852 per 1,000 people 
# 29   Japan: 2.3269 per 1,000 people 
# 30   Uruguay: 1.63554 per 1,000 people 
# 31   Greece: 1.49035 per 1,000 people 
# 32   Chile: 1.44328 per 1,000 people 
# 33   Malaysia: 1.37407 per 1,000 people 
# 34   Mexico: 1.31521 per 1,000 people 
# 35   Hong Kong: 1.30004 per 1,000 people 
# 36   Mauritius: 1.28676 per 1,000 people 
# 37   Norway: 1.15328 per 1,000 people 
# 38   Romania: 0.954859 per 1,000 people 
# 39   Moldova: 0.894276 per 1,000 people 
# 40   Jamaica: 0.886696 per 1,000 people 
# 41   Zambia: 0.876043 per 1,000 people 
# 42   Tunisia: 0.762283 per 1,000 people 
# 43   Sri Lanka: 0.631248 per 1,000 people 
# 44   Spain: 0.591359 per 1,000 people 
# 45   Papua New Guinea: 0.472137 per 1,000 people 
# 46   Georgia: 0.403036 per 1,000 people 
# 47   Qatar: 0.347604 per 1,000 people 
# 48   Colombia: 0.31138 per 1,000 people 
# 49   Thailand: 0.205995 per 1,000 people 
# 50   India: 0.103027 per 1,000 people 
# 51   Korea, South: 0.0622315 per 1,000 people 
# 52   Armenia: 0.0308414 per 1,000 people 
# 53   Yemen: 0.00530709 per 1,000 people 
# 54   Saudi Arabia: 0.000416383 per 1,000 people 
Weighted average: 5.1 per 1,000 people  



DEFINITION: Total recorded burglaries. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.

SOURCE: Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, covering the period 1998 - 2000 (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention)

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COMMENTARY     

Tim S
5th February 2010
The problem with rankings on crime is many countries don't have the systems in place to accurately record the crime rate. According to this website Australia has a worse record than ..well every other country on earth, something is wrong here lol. But nice website all the same.
tabeer
26th October 2009
why we stop the burglary crime
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