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Africa > South Africa > Crime

SOUTH AFRICAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Assaults 548,847 [2nd of 49]
Burglaries 393,959 [4th of 38]
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)
Car thefts 93,133 [6th of 46]
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)
Death penalty > Abolition date 1,997 [15th of 64]
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)
Death penalty > Last executed 1,991 [5th of 55]
Source: Last updated: 01/04/03
Drug offences 53,810 per 100,000 people [4th of 46]
Source: Last updated: 01/04/03
Gun violence > Homicides > % homicides with firearms 59.2028 [2nd of 32]
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)
Gun violence > Homicides > Overall homicide rate > per 100,000 pop. 125.965 [1st of 32]
Source: Wikipedia: Gun violence
Illicit drugs
transshipment center for heroin, hashish, and cocaine, as well as a major cultivator of marijuana in its own right; cocaine and heroin consumption on the rise; world's largest market for illicit methaqualone, usually imported illegally from India through various east African countries, but increasingly producing its own synthetic drugs for domestic consumption; attractive venue for money launderers given the increasing level of organized criminal and narcotics activity in the region and the size of the South African economy
Source: Wikipedia: Gun violence
Kidnappings 3,071 kidnappings [2nd of 39]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Murders 21,553 [1st of 49]
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 with firearms 31,918 [1st of 36]
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)
Police 101,582 [8th of 47]
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 181,944 prisoners [2nd of 168]
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 402 per 100,000 people [10th 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)
Rapes 52,425 [2nd of 50]
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief
Robberies 228,442 [3rd of 47]
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)
Software piracy rate 34% [89th of 107]
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)
Total crimes 2,683,849 [5th of 50]
Source: Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - South Africa is on the Tier 2 Watch List for a fourth consecutive year for its failure to show increasing efforts to address trafficking; the government provided inadequate data in 2007 on trafficking crimes investigated or prosecuted, or on resulting convictions or sentences; it also did not provide information on its efforts to protect victims of trafficking; the country continues to deport and/or prosecute suspected foreign victims without providing appropriate protective services
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)

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SOURCES: 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); Last updated: 01/04/03; Wikipedia: Gun violence ; 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

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: South Africa, Republic of South Africa, rep. of s. africa, SAFRICA

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COMMENTARY     

Maria
5th February 2010 		I am so sad to see where South Africa is heading
Justice
3rd February 2010 		The firm which does not registering
Proudly SA
11th December 2009 		Regardless of the crime her in SA, there is no place like home! I LOVE MY COUNTRY and we should all work together to try and solve this.
saproudly
9th November 2009 		Stats are based on incentives of the "expert" providing the stats. We know that between 1990 and 1996 Atlanta (US) under reported all its crimes stats and 22 000 doc on crime went missing. So, it depends how powerful a country you are and which "expert" is brown-nosed by who.
peter
5th October 2009 		I share the question with Stan. Demonstrate the in-accuracy of statistics especialy regarding crime stats from South Africa. Anyway it means between 59 and 87 murders PER DAY !!!
it does not make sence
8th September 2009 		Im am trying to understand the stats with respect to murders for South Africa.
Murders 21,553 [1st of 49]
Murders with firearms 31,918 [1st of 36]

Should not murders with firearms be a sub category of all murders, and therefore should always be less that all murders. or should you split the murder into murder without firearm and murder with firearm.

Stan
stm@24.com
Elysiumboy
3rd May 2009 		What an excellent source of information! Found everything I needed with the simplest of ease. You've joined my favourites column immediately.
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