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Africa > Nigeria > Crime

NIGERIAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Executions 6 executions [16th of 22]
Illicit drugs
a transit point for heroin and cocaine intended for European, East Asian, and North American markets; consumer of amphetamines; safe haven for Nigerian narcotraffickers operating worldwide; major money-laundering center; massive corruption and criminal activity; Nigeria has improved some anti-money-laundering controls, resulting in its removal from the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF's) Noncooperative Countries and Territories List in June 2006; Nigeria's anti-money-laundering regime continues to be monitored by FATF
Definition: Crime > Illicit drugs
Source: Amnesty International
Prisoners 40,447 prisoners [32nd of 168]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Prisoners > Female 1.9% [113rd of 134]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Female
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 33 per 100,000 people [149th of 164]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Per capita
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 63% [17th of 143]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 101.5% [89th of 128]
Definition: Crime > Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Software piracy rate 82% [19th of 107]
Definition: Crime > Software piracy rate
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
United States extradition treaties > Citation 47 Stat. 2122.
Definition: Crime > United States extradition treaties > Citation
Source: Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study
United States extradition treaties > Date signed December 22, 1931
Definition: Crime > United States extradition treaties > Date signed
Source: Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force June 24, 1935
Definition: Crime > United States extradition treaties > Entered into force
Source: Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 58.6 [15th of 143]
Definition: Crime > Unpaid diplomatic parking fines
Source: Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties

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SOURCES: Amnesty International; 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: Nigeria, Federal Republic of Nigeria

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