Crime > Car thefts: Countries Compared

Author: Ian Graham, Staff Editor

Another thing to consider is the difference between number of crimes and the crime rate. <p>The number of car thefts in the United States is more than three times as many as in the second-place country, the United Kingdom. But the U.S. population was estimated to be 290,342,554 people in July 2003, behind only China and India. The U.K.â€™s population was 60,094,648, or about 20 percent that of the U.S. <p>In <a href=http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_car_the_cap>car thefts per capita</a>, the U.S. is ninth, with a rate of 3.95 per 1000. This is considerably lower than the U.K.â€™s rate of 5.63 per 1000. <p>As for why the number of car thefts in the U.S. is higher than in more populous India and China, it probably is because the number of <a href=http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/tra_mot_veh&int=-1>motor vehicles per 1000 people</a> in the U.S. is about 64 times as many as India and 76.5 times as many as China.

SHOW ALL

LESS

DEFINITION: Total recorded automobile thefts. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.

SHOW ALL

LESS

CONTENTS

MAP
PIE
INTERESTING
Q+A

#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	United States	1.25 million	2002
2	United Kingdom	348,169	2002
	Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile)	346,166.29	2002
3	France	301,539	2002
4	Italy	232,564	2002
5	Canada	161,506	2002
6	Mexico	141,007	2002
7	Australia	139,094	2002
8	Spain	134,584	2002
	High income OECD countries average (profile)	111,148.86	2002
9	South Africa	93,133	2002
	Non-religious countries average (profile)	73,728.82	2002
10	Germany	70,617	2002
11	Switzerland	65,571	2002
12	Japan	62,673	2002
13	Sweden	61,350	2002
	NATO countries average (profile)	58,140.54	2002
14	Malaysia	55,879	2002
15	Poland	53,674	2002
	European Union average (profile)	52,510.78	2002
	Eurozone average (profile)	51,198.35	2002
16	Netherlands	35,384	2002
17	Colombia	33,135	2002
18	Portugal	30,560	2002
19	Denmark	29,101	2002
20	Indonesia	29,061	2002
21	Czech Republic	26,143	2002
22	Russia	26,106	2002
23	Norway	23,339	2002
24	New Zealand	23,324	2002
25	Finland	23,115	2002
26	Saudi Arabia	18,717	2002
27	Turkey	14,954	2002
28	Ireland	14,851	2002
29	Bulgaria	11,281	2002
30	Greece	8,486	2002
31	Hungary	8,354	2002
32	Chile	5,930	2002
33	Lithuania	5,716	2002
34	Austria	5,489	2002
35	Slovakia	4,795	2002
36	Uruguay	4,517	2002
37	Costa Rica	4,385	2002
38	Bolivia	4,021	2002
39	Thailand	3,276	2002
40	Ukraine	3,164	2002
41	El Salvador	3,069	2002
42	Latvia	2,845	2002
43	Hong Kong	2,804	2002
44	Croatia	2,404	2002
45	Estonia	2,322	2002
46	Belarus	1,942	2002
47	Peru	1,899	2002
48	Tunisia	1,690	2002
49	Morocco	1,523	2002
50	Zimbabwe	1,342	2002
51	Romania	1,227	2002
52	Cyprus	1,009	2002
53	Slovenia	930	2002
54	Yemen	821	2002
55	Zambia	792	2002
56	Papua New Guinea	763	2002
57	Malta	707	2002
58	Moldova	612	2002
59	Luxembourg	575	2002
60	Panama	566	2002
61	Oman	423	2002
62	Iceland	387	2002
63	Maldives	371	2002
64	Republic of Macedonia	303	2002
65	Jamaica	258	2002
66	Georgia	244	2002
67	Albania	198	2002
68	Kyrgyzstan	163	2002
69	Azerbaijan	81	2002
70	Dominica	72	2002
71	Namibia	60	2002
72	Burma	27	2002
73	Qatar	25	2002

Citation

SHARE TWEET EMBED