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Rank   Countries  Amount  (top to bottom)   
#1   Egypt: 3,576,010 
#2   United Kingdom: 1,398,270 
#3   Russia: 1,183,630 
#4   France: 1,069,550 
#5   Turkey: 972,124 
#6   India: 604,547 
#7   Germany: 545,444 
#8   Thailand: 468,984 
#9   Italy: 308,300 
#10   Canada: 295,912 
#11   Spain: 277,597 
#12   Ukraine: 230,903 
#13   Chile: 226,652 
#14   Korea, South: 175,343 
#15   Finland: 173,140 
#16   Mexico: 122,582 
#17   Indonesia: 115,715 
#18   Netherlands: 100,663 
#19   Syria: 97,141 
#20   New Zealand: 95,734 
#21   Hungary: 95,213 
#22   Romania: 89,423 
#23   Colombia: 85,180 
#24   Kazakhstan: 77,984 
#25   Japan: 77,619 
#26   Cyprus: 73,883 
#27   Switzerland: 70,335 
#28   Zimbabwe: 68,275 
#29   Czech Republic: 63,211 
#30   Belarus: 57,074 
#31   Portugal: 53,682 
#32   Malaysia: 51,433 
#33   Bulgaria: 30,405 
#34   Slovakia: 22,363 
#35   Hong Kong: 22,349 
#36   Lithuania: 20,680 
#37   Kyrgyzstan: 20,168 
#38   Croatia: 17,253 
#39   Moldova: 15,968 
#40   Azerbaijan: 14,605 
#41   Latvia: 12,689 
#42   Norway: 10,782 
#43   Estonia: 10,261 
#44   Georgia: 8,284 
#45   Slovenia: 6,895 
#46   Uruguay: 4,876 
#47   Albania: 4,090 
#48   Panama: 4,029 
#49   Qatar: 3,610 
#50   Dominican Republic: 3,442 
#51   Costa Rica: 3,005 
#52   Iceland: 2,426 
#53   Zambia: 1,947 
#54   Papua New Guinea: 885 
#55   Dominica: 495 
#56   Montserrat: 167 
Total: 13,143,227  
Weighted average: 234,700.5  


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

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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Jorge Garza (Cuernavaca)
4th May 2006
This (and others) sound tendencious, why US is not in first or second place in convicted if many ppl' knows they have over 3 million convicted. US don't even appears!
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