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Africa > Zambia > Crime

ZAMBIAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 48.79 % Time series [1st of 38]
Acquitted 188 [41st of 30]
Adults prosecuted 251 [33rd of 28]
    Adults prosecuted (per capita) 0.0222873 per 1,000 people [33rd of 33]
Assaults 22,127 [23rd of 49]
    Assaults (per capita) 1.96475 per 1,000 people [23rd of 57]
Burglaries 9,866 [35th of 38]
    Burglaries (per capita) 0.876043 per 1,000 people [41st of 54]
Car thefts 792 [45th of 46]
    Car thefts (per capita) 0.070325 per 1,000 people [48th of 55]
Convicted 1,947 [53rd of 34]
    Convicted (per capita) 0.172882 per 1,000 people [55th of 56]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 45.89 % Time series [2nd of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights 36.14 % Time series [3rd of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 38.65 % Time series [1st of 39]
Frauds 349 [56th of 48]
    Frauds (per capita) 0.0309892 per 1,000 people [59th of 61]
Illicit drugs
transshipment point for moderate amounts of methaqualone, small amounts of heroin, and cocaine bound for southern Africa and possibly Europe; a poorly developed financial infrastructure coupled with a government commitment to combating money laundering make it an unattractive venue for money launderers; major consumer of cannabis
Jails 52 [25th of 80]
    Jails (per capita) 0.0046173 per 1,000 people [28th of 62]
Manslaughters 31 [28th of 42]
    Manslaughters (per capita) 0.00275262 per 1,000 people [31st of 43]
Murders 797 [19th of 49]
    Murders (per capita) 0.070769 per 1,000 people [18th of 62]
Police 12,802 [31st of 47]
    Police (per capita) 1.13674 per 1,000 people [45th of 48]
Prisoners 13,173 prisoners [57th of 168]
Prisoners > Female 1.5% [124th of 134]
Prisoners > Per capita 121 per 100,000 people [70th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 25.5% [88th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 245.9% [6th of 128]
Rapes 300 [43rd of 50]
    Rapes (per capita) 0.0266383 per 1,000 people [49th of 65]
Robberies 2,699 [39th of 47]
    Robberies (per capita) 0.239655 per 1,000 people [45th of 64]
Software piracy rate 82% [21st of 107]
Total crimes 59,426 [43rd of 50]
    Total crimes (per capita) 5.27668 per 1,000 people [52nd of 60]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Zambia is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation; many Zambian child laborers, particularly those in the agriculture, domestic service, and fishing sectors, are also victims of human trafficking; Zambian women, lured by false employment or marriage offers abroad, are trafficked to South Africa via Zimbabwe and to Europe via Malawi for sexual exploitation; Zambia is a transit point for regional trafficking of women and children, particularly from Angola to Namibia and from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to South Africa for agricultural labor
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Zambia is on the Tier 2 Watch List for failing to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking, particularly in regard to its inability to bring alleged traffickers to justice through prosecutions and convictions; unlike 2006, there were no new prosecutions or convictions of alleged traffickers in 2007; government efforts to protect victims of trafficking remained extremely limited throughout the year
United States extradition treaties > Citation 47 Stat. 2122.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed December 22, 1931
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force June 24, 1935
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 60.4 [12th of 143]

SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; 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); Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, covering the period 1998 - 2000 (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); 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); 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: Zambia, Republic of Zambia

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