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South America > Ecuador > Crime

ECUADORIAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 27.81 % Time series [11th of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 49.23 % Time series [8th of 39]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights 70.8 % Time series [2nd of 39]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 34 % Time series [1st of 39]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Death penalty > Abolition date 1,906 [63rd of 64]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Illicit drugs
significant transit country for cocaine originating in Colombia and Peru, with over half of the US-bound cocaine passing through Ecuadorian Pacific waters; importer of precursor chemicals used in production of illicit narcotics; attractive location for cash-placement by drug traffickers laundering money because of dollarization and weak anti-money-laundering regime; increased activity on the northern frontier by trafficking groups and Colombian insurgents
Source: Last updated: 01/04/03
Jails 32 [34th of 80]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Murders committed by youths 757 [11th of 73]
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)
Murders committed by youths per capita 15.9 [8th of 57]
Source: World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002
Prisoners 8,274 prisoners [34th of 168]
Source: World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002
Prisoners > Per capita 59 per 100,000 people [121st of 164]
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 > Pre-trial detainees 69.9% [9th of 143]
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 115% [68th of 128]
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Software piracy rate 66% [50th of 107]
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
United States extradition treaties > Citation
18 Stat. 199; TS 79; 7 Bevans 321.
55 Stat. 1196; TS 972; 7 Bevans 346.
Source: Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study
United States extradition treaties > Date signed
June 28, 1872
September 22, 1939
Source: Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force
November 12, 1873
May 29, 1941
Source: Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 0 [127th of 143]
Source: Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; Last updated: 01/04/03; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; 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); World Health Organization: World report on violence and health, 2002; 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); International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study; Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties ; Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets Ray Fisman Edward Miguel Columbia University and NBER University of California, Berkeley and NBER 2006

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Ecuador, Republic of Ecuador, Republica del Ecuador

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