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

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Rank   Countries  Amount 
# 1   Spain: 12.3265 per 1,000 people 
# 2   Chile: 6.92522 per 1,000 people 
# 3   Costa Rica: 4.79109 per 1,000 people 
# 4   South Africa: 4.4434 per 1,000 people 
# 5   Estonia: 3.56639 per 1,000 people 
# 6   Mexico: 2.02555 per 1,000 people 
# 7   Portugal: 1.6237 per 1,000 people 
# 8   United Kingdom: 1.57433 per 1,000 people 
# 9   Uruguay: 1.57114 per 1,000 people 
# 10   Poland: 1.38838 per 1,000 people 
# 11   United States: 1.38527 per 1,000 people 
# 12   Latvia: 1.37991 per 1,000 people 
# 13   Venezuela: 1.37833 per 1,000 people 
# 14   Lithuania: 1.21601 per 1,000 people 
# 15   Australia: 1.16048 per 1,000 people 
# 16   Netherlands: 1.13549 per 1,000 people 
# 17   Zimbabwe: 0.974838 per 1,000 people 
# 18   Mauritius: 0.947197 per 1,000 people 
# 19   Russia: 0.923114 per 1,000 people 
# 20   Jamaica: 0.851974 per 1,000 people 
# 21   Dominica: 0.82574 per 1,000 people 
# 22   Canada: 0.823411 per 1,000 people 
# 23   Germany: 0.720773 per 1,000 people 
# 24   Seychelles: 0.652806 per 1,000 people 
# 25   Italy: 0.649295 per 1,000 people 
# 26   Malaysia: 0.613535 per 1,000 people 
# 27   Papua New Guinea: 0.612083 per 1,000 people 
# 28   Ireland: 0.601096 per 1,000 people 
# 29   Denmark: 0.580265 per 1,000 people 
# 30   Bulgaria: 0.572617 per 1,000 people 
# 31   Colombia: 0.571239 per 1,000 people 
# 32   Moldova: 0.569921 per 1,000 people 
# 33   Belarus: 0.550291 per 1,000 people 
# 34   Finland: 0.497798 per 1,000 people 
# 35   Hong Kong: 0.497608 per 1,000 people 
# 36   Ukraine: 0.455965 per 1,000 people 
# 37   New Zealand: 0.439901 per 1,000 people 
# 38   France: 0.400686 per 1,000 people 
# 39   Czech Republic: 0.400254 per 1,000 people 
# 40   Norway: 0.387764 per 1,000 people 
# 41   Hungary: 0.349156 per 1,000 people 
# 42   Kyrgyzstan: 0.290906 per 1,000 people 
# 43   Switzerland: 0.290827 per 1,000 people 
# 44   Indonesia: 0.253168 per 1,000 people 
# 45   Zambia: 0.239655 per 1,000 people 
# 46   Slovenia: 0.235704 per 1,000 people 
# 47   Slovakia: 0.232738 per 1,000 people 
# 48   Sri Lanka: 0.231597 per 1,000 people 
# 49   Romania: 0.185535 per 1,000 people 
# 50   Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 0.144743 per 1,000 people 
# 51   Iceland: 0.11458 per 1,000 people 
# 52   Tunisia: 0.0950869 per 1,000 people 
# 53   Korea, South: 0.093008 per 1,000 people 
# 54   Greece: 0.078084 per 1,000 people 
# 55   Georgia: 0.0718409 per 1,000 people 
# 56   Armenia: 0.0543077 per 1,000 people 
# 57   Japan: 0.040599 per 1,000 people 
# 58   India: 0.0263001 per 1,000 people 
# 59   Turkey: 0.0234421 per 1,000 people 
# 60   Saudi Arabia: 0.0226361 per 1,000 people 
# 61   Azerbaijan: 0.0183266 per 1,000 people 
# 62   Thailand: 0.0121522 per 1,000 people 
# 63   Yemen: 0.00844309 per 1,000 people 
# 64   Qatar: 0.00463472 per 1,000 people 
Weighted average: 1.0 per 1,000 people  



DEFINITION: Total recorded robberies. 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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