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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE	GRAPH
1	Germany	250,969 per 100,000 people	2000
2	United Kingdom	183,419 per 100,000 people	2000
3	Canada	92,590 per 100,000 people	2000
	Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile)	84,593.74 per 100,000 people	2000
4	South Africa	53,810 per 100,000 people	2000
5	Switzerland	49,201 per 100,000 people	2000
6	Belgium	40,856 per 100,000 people	2000
7	Sweden	38,005 per 100,000 people	2000
8	Italy	37,965 per 100,000 people	2000
9	Poland	36,178 per 100,000 people	2000
	High income OECD countries average (profile)	30,298.77 per 100,000 people	2000
	NATO countries average (profile)	27,691.56 per 100,000 people	2000
10	Japan	26,477 per 100,000 people	2000
	European Union average (profile)	25,873.63 per 100,000 people	2000
11	New Zealand	23,747 per 100,000 people	2000
12	Mexico	23,588 per 100,000 people	2000
	Eurozone average (profile)	23,080.38 per 100,000 people	2000
13	Austria	22,422 per 100,000 people	2000
	Non-religious countries average (profile)	18,040.51 per 100,000 people	2000
14	Morocco	17,064 per 100,000 people	2000
15	Argentina	15,508 per 100,000 people	2000
16	Finland	13,857 per 100,000 people	2000
17	Netherlands	12,683 per 100,000 people	2000
18	Croatia	10,819 per 100,000 people	2000
19	Slovenia	5,583 per 100,000 people	2000
20	Belarus	5,303 per 100,000 people	2000
21	Hungary	4,786 per 100,000 people	2000
22	Peru	4,359 per 100,000 people	2000
23	Bolivia	3,938 per 100,000 people	2000
24	Czech Republic	3,860 per 100,000 people	2000
25	Portugal	3,758 per 100,000 people	2000
26	Burma	2,867 per 100,000 people	2000
27	Moldova	2,481 per 100,000 people	2000
28	Azerbaijan	2,190 per 100,000 people	2000
29	Panama	1,484 per 100,000 people	2000
30	Luxembourg	1,321 per 100,000 people	2000
31	Romania	1,291 per 100,000 people	2000
32	Slovakia	1,119 per 100,000 people	2000
33	Costa Rica	1,099 per 100,000 people	2000
34	Denmark	1,053 per 100,000 people	2000
35	Iceland	994 per 100,000 people	2000
36	Norway	987.1 per 100,000 people	2000
37	Lithuania	937 per 100,000 people	2000
38	Uruguay	857 per 100,000 people	2000
39	Tunisia	815 per 100,000 people	2000
40	Latvia	629 per 100,000 people	2000
41	United States	560.1 per 100,000 people	2000
42	Cyprus	436 per 100,000 people	2000
43	Thailand	428.9 per 100,000 people	2000
44	Malta	341 per 100,000 people	2000
45	Chile	324 per 100,000 people	2000
46	Maldives	293 per 100,000 people	2000
47	Albania	250 per 100,000 people	2000
48	Oman	247 per 100,000 people	2000
49	Nepal	201 per 100,000 people	2000
50	Ireland	190.2 per 100,000 people	2000
51	France	176.1 per 100,000 people	2000
52	Malaysia	48.6 per 100,000 people	2000
53	Singapore	46.8 per 100,000 people	2000
54	Hong Kong	34 per 100,000 people	2000
55	Greece	33.3 per 100,000 people	2000
56	Spain	27.9 per 100,000 people	2000
57	South Korea	9.9 per 100,000 people	2000
58	Turkey	4.6 per 100,000 people	2000
59	China	3.9 per 100,000 people	2000
60	Indonesia	3.4 per 100,000 people	2000

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Crime > Drug offences: Countries Compared Map

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Not sure about other European countries, but in Germany commas and periods in figures are reversed. E.g. "2,5" would be "2.5" [decimal point] in the US. If you take a statistical report written in German and don't know this, then 250 plus some fractions reads as 250-thousand. My guess is, that other countries that high on the list use a similar notation. The author needs to go back to the source and get this straightened out.

Posted on 28 Jul 2011

Ann E Buddy

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It's easy to get 250,969 per 100,000 people if there are repeat offenders, which I feel is quite likely in the drugs world as people like using them.

Posted on 06 Jan 2011

dairyfarm

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What? Somebody needs to start again here.

Posted on 16 Mar 2010

Charlie

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All the numbers cited above that of the US are wrong. The webmasters used absolute counts rather than rate per 100,000 (e.g., Germany had an actual 2002 drug offence rate of 304 per 100,000 people; Canada, 295/100K; etc.).

The original dataset can be found here (pp. 44-47): http://www.unodc.org/pdf/crime/eighthsurvey/5678svr.pdf

Posted on 16 Mar 2010

AKTor

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250.000 per 82.000.000 poorly loaded the data, please be more vigilant, people work with this data

Posted on 09 Mar 2010

casiuno

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remember when looking at these statistics that one person can be charged with multiple offenses. That's why the figure that is given (per 100,000 people) can be more than '100,000'.

Posted on 01 Mar 2010

GJR

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Impossible...

Germany 2.5 offences per every man woman and child... and the US, a notoriously drug-infested country, 560.1 per 100000 people?

No way.

Posted on 07 Feb 2010

ME

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These stats need an urgent review. I can't find anything to corroberate the figures I see in the top 5

Posted on 04 Feb 2010

Dirk

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Or there is more then one person with only one drug charge. Duh

Posted on 08 Jan 2010

Kyle L

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Germans love drugs.

Posted on 23 Sep 2009

Don B Sillier

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So, in Germany they have 250,969 drug offences per 100,000 people?
That's over 2.5 offences for every man, woman and child in Germany?
Do these stats mean anything? Or are the commas in the wrong places?

Posted on 13 May 2009

Don B. Silly