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Africa > Kenya > Crime

KENYAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 69.57 % Time series [2nd of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 72.46 % Time series [2nd of 39]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights 51.3 % Time series [6th of 39]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Illicit drugs
widespread harvesting of small plots of marijuana; transit country for South Asian heroin destined for Europe and North America; Indian methaqualone also transits on way to South Africa; significant potential for money-laundering activity given the country's status as a regional financial center; massive corruption, and relatively high levels of narcotics-associated activities
Source: World Development Indicators database
Prisoners 35,278 prisoners [36th of 168]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Prisoners > Female 3.6% [80th of 134]
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 111 per 100,000 people [78th of 164]
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 39.4% [50th of 143]
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 228.1% [10th of 128]
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Software piracy rate 81% [23rd of 107]
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Kenya is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation; children are trafficked within the country for domestic servitude, street vending, agricultural labor, and sexual exploitation; men, women, and girls are trafficked to the Middle East, other African nations, Western Europe, and North America for domestic servitude, enslavement in massage parlors and brothels, and manual labor; Chinese women trafficked for sexual exploitation reportedly transit Nairobi and Bangladeshis may transit Kenya for forced labor in other countries
Source: Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Kenya is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List due to a lack of evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
United States extradition treaties > Citation
47 Stat. 2122.
16 UST 1866.
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
United States extradition treaties > Date signed December 22, 1931
Source: Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force
June 24, 1935
August 19, 1965
Source: Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 7.7 [73rd of 143]
Source: Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; 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); 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: Kenya, Republic of Kenya

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