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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	8.37 %		[20th of 38]
Acquitted	340		[23rd of 30]
Adults prosecuted	41		[27th of 28]
Assaults	554		[46th of 49]
Car thefts	198		[43rd of 46]
Convicted	4,370		[30th of 34]
Convicted (per capita)	1.14791 per 1,000 people		[49th of 56]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	31.03 %		[7th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights	43.56 %		[18th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	23.15 %		[10th of 39]
Drug offences	250 per 100,000 people		[44th of 46]
Frauds	38		[48th of 48]
Illicit drugs increasingly active transshipment point for Southwest Asian opiates, hashish, and cannabis transiting the Balkan route and - to a lesser extent - cocaine from South America destined for Western Europe; limited opium and growing cannabis production; ethnic Albanian narcotrafficking organizations active and expanding in Europe; vulnerable to money laundering associated with regional trafficking in narcotics, arms, contraband, and illegal aliens
Jails	11		[42nd of 80]
Judges and Magistrates	333		[25th of 35]
Judges and Magistrates (per capita)	0.0740949 per 1,000 people		[31st of 45]
Kidnappings	15 kidnappings		[28th of 39]
Manslaughters	16		[33rd of 42]
Murders	179		[29th of 49]
Murders committed by youths	325		[16th of 73]
Murders committed by youths per capita	28.2		[5th of 57]
Murders with firearms	135		[10th of 36]
Police	11,987		[34th of 47]
Prisoners	1,532 prisoners		[45th of 168]
Prisoners > Female	4.4%		[58th of 134]
Prisoners > Foreign prisoners	0.4%		[79th of 86]
Prisoners > Per capita	105 per 100,000 people		[87th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	44.9%		[39th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	119.1%		[60th of 128]
Rapes	45		[45th of 50]
Robberies	220		[40th of 47]
Sentence Length	10		[19th of 21]
Software piracy rate	78%		[32nd of 107]
Total crimes	5,303		[50th of 50]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation Albania is a source country for women and girls trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor; it is no longer considered a major country of transit; Albanian victims are trafficked to Greece, Italy, Macedonia, and Kosovo, with many trafficked onward to Western European countries; children were also trafficked to Greece for begging and other forms of child labor; approximately half of all Albanian trafficking victims are under age 18; internal sex trafficking of women and children is on the rise
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating Tier 2 Watch List - Albania is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in persons in 2007, particularly in the area of victim protection; the government did not appropriately identify trafficking victims during 2007, and has not demonstrated that it is vigorously investigating or prosecuting complicit officials
United States extradition treaties > Citation	49 Stat. 3313.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed	March 1, 1933
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force	November 14, 1935
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	84.5		[7th of 143]

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