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Crime Statistics > Software piracy rate (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount 
# 1   Armenia: 93% 
= 2   Moldova: 92% 
= 2   Azerbaijan: 92% 
= 2   Bangladesh: 92% 
# 5   Zimbabwe: 91% 
# 6   Sri Lanka: 90% 
# 7   Yemen: 89% 
# 8   Libya: 88% 
# 9   Venezuela: 87% 
= 10   Iraq: 85% 
= 10   Vietnam: 85% 
= 12   Algeria: 84% 
= 12   Cameroon: 84% 
= 12   Pakistan: 84% 
= 12   Indonesia: 84% 
# 16   Ukraine: 83% 
= 17   China: 82% 
= 17   Botswana: 82% 
= 17   Zambia: 82% 
= 17   Nigeria: 82% 
= 17   Bolivia: 82% 
= 17   Paraguay: 82% 
= 23   El Salvador: 81% 
= 23   Côte d'Ivoire: 81% 
= 23   Kenya: 81% 
= 26   Guatemala: 80% 
= 26   Senegal: 80% 
= 26   Nicaragua: 80% 
= 29   Dominican Republic: 79% 
= 29   Kazakhstan: 79% 
= 31   Albania: 78% 
= 31   Thailand: 78% 
= 33   Tunisia: 76% 
= 33   Serbia and Montenegro: 76% 
= 35   Panama: 74% 
= 35   Honduras: 74% 
= 35   Argentina: 74% 
= 38   Lebanon: 73% 
= 38   Russia: 73% 
# 40   Peru: 71% 
= 41   Uruguay: 69% 
= 41   Philippines: 69% 
= 41   India: 69% 
= 44   Bulgaria: 68% 
= 44   Macedonia, Republic of: 68% 
= 44   Romania: 68% 
= 44   Bosnia and Herzegovina: 68% 
# 48   Morocco: 67% 
= 49   Ecuador: 66% 
= 49   Chile: 66% 
# 51   Turkey: 65% 
# 52   Kuwait: 62% 
= 53   Costa Rica: 61% 
= 53   Mexico: 61% 
= 53   Oman: 61% 
= 56   Jordan: 60% 
= 56   Egypt: 60% 
= 58   Malaysia: 59% 
= 58   Brazil: 59% 
= 60   Colombia: 58% 
= 60   Greece: 58% 
= 62   Bahrain: 57% 
= 62   Mauritius: 57% 
= 62   Poland: 57% 
= 65   Latvia: 56% 
= 65   Lithuania: 56% 
= 67   Croatia: 54% 
= 67   Qatar: 54% 
= 69   Hong Kong: 51% 
= 69   Saudi Arabia: 51% 
= 69   Estonia: 51% 
# 72   Cyprus: 50% 
# 73   Italy: 49% 
= 74   Slovenia: 48% 
= 74   Iceland: 48% 
# 76   Malta: 46% 
# 77   Slovakia: 45% 
# 78   Puerto Rico: 44% 
= 79   Korea, South: 43% 
= 79   Portugal: 43% 
= 79   Spain: 43% 
= 82   Hungary: 42% 
= 82   France: 42% 
= 84   Taiwan: 40% 
= 84   Réunion: 40% 
# 86   Czech Republic: 39% 
# 87   Singapore: 37% 
# 88   United Arab Emirates: 35% 
= 89   Ireland: 34% 
= 89   South Africa: 34% 
# 91   Canada: 33% 
# 92   Israel: 32% 
# 93   Norway: 29% 
= 94   Netherlands: 28% 
= 94   Australia: 28% 
# 96   Germany: 27% 
# 97   United Kingdom: 26% 
= 98   Switzerland: 25% 
= 98   Austria: 25% 
= 98   Denmark: 25% 
= 98   Belgium: 25% 
= 98   Sweden: 25% 
= 98   Finland: 25% 
# 104   Japan: 23% 
# 105   New Zealand: 22% 
# 106   Luxembourg: 21% 
# 107   United States: 20% 
Weighted average: 59.9%  



DEFINITION: The piracy rate is the total number of units of pirated software deployed in 2007 divided by the total units of software installed.

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Sam
10th June 2009
I doubt america is at the bottom. But this is an American site.
clef
29th April 2009
I live in Chile and I'm pretty sure that the actual piracy rate is closer to 90%.
James,
Staff Editor

2nd May 2005
Factors that can contribute to differences in software piracy include: software prices relative to income, the strength of intellectual property protection and cultural attitudes. The countries with the lower piracy rates also tend to be strong producers of intellectual property, and vice versa.


There is a strong push by developed nations (who are strong producers of intellectual property) to force developing nations to improve their enforcement of intellectual property rights, despite the fact that they themselves were slow to adopt strong protection of intellectual property during their own development phase. US industry has estimated it loses between US$200-250 billion annually due to copyright infringement around the world, and the Bush Administration has listed 14 countries which need to improve protection of intellectual property or face US trade sanctions -- the countries are Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Venezuela. Israel stands out on this list by having a software piracy rate of only 35%, the same as Canada and slightly more than half the software piracy rate of Brazil, with the next lowest software piracy rate at 61%.


However, developing countries claim they need access to knowledge, and developed countries will need to yield some ground to make it worthwhile for developing nations to increase protection of intellectual property. During discussions held by the World Intellectual Property Organization on this topic, India's representatives said "For developing countries to benefit from providing IP protection to rights holders based in developed countries, there has to be some obligation on the part of developed countries to transfer and disseminate technologies to developing countries."

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