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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	39.08 %		[2nd of 38]
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Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint	57.62 %		[1st of 39]
DEFINITION: Corruption measures the share of senior managers who ranked corruption as a major or very severe constraint.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights	82.98 %		[1st of 39]
DEFINITION: Lack confidence that courts uphold property rights is the share of senior managers who do not agree with the statement: “I am confident that the judicial system will enforce my contractual and property rights in business disputes.”		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Executions	6 executions		[14th of 22]
DEFINITION: Number of known executions in the country (Data is for 2007). Because these figures include only documented cases; the true figures are likely to be higher in many countries.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Prisoners	74,170 prisoners		[16th of 168]
DEFINITION: Total persons incarcerated
SOURCE: Amnesty International
Prisoners > Female	2.8%		[96th of 134]
DEFINITION: Female prisoners, expressed as a percentage share of the total prison population. Data for 2003.
SOURCE: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention)
Prisoners > Per capita	50 per 100,000 people		[131st of 164]
DEFINITION: Data for 2003. Number of prisoners held per 100,000 population.
SOURCE: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees	60.3%		[19th of 143]
DEFINITION: The percentage of the prison population that is being held pre-trial / on remand. Data for 2003.
SOURCE: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled	288.5%		[3rd of 128]
DEFINITION: The percentage of the offical prison capacity filled. This is obtained by comparing the number of prisoners in a nation to the offical capacity of the nation's prison system. Data for 2003.
SOURCE: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Software piracy rate	92%		[2nd of 107]
DEFINITION: The piracy rate is the total number of units of pirated software deployed in 2007 divided by the total units of software installed.
SOURCE: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines	33		[28th of 143]
DEFINITION: Average Unpaid Annual New York City Parking Violations per Diplomat, 11/1997 to 11/2002.
SOURCE: Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study

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