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Rank   Countries  Amount  (top to bottom)   
#1   Germany: 250,969 per 100,000 people 
#2   United Kingdom: 183,419 per 100,000 people 
#3   Canada: 92,590 per 100,000 people 
#4   South Africa: 53,810 per 100,000 people 
#5   Switzerland: 49,201 per 100,000 people 
#6   Belgium: 40,856 per 100,000 people 
#7   Sweden: 38,005 per 100,000 people 
#8   Italy: 37,965 per 100,000 people 
#9   Poland: 36,178 per 100,000 people 
#10   Japan: 26,477 per 100,000 people 
#11   New Zealand: 23,747 per 100,000 people 
#12   Mexico: 23,588 per 100,000 people 
#13   Austria: 22,422 per 100,000 people 
#14   Morocco: 17,064 per 100,000 people 
#15   Argentina: 15,508 per 100,000 people 
#16   Finland: 13,857 per 100,000 people 
#17   Netherlands: 12,683 per 100,000 people 
#18   Croatia: 10,819 per 100,000 people 
#19   Slovenia: 5,583 per 100,000 people 
#20   Belarus: 5,303 per 100,000 people 
#21   Hungary: 4,786 per 100,000 people 
#22   Peru: 4,359 per 100,000 people 
#23   Bolivia: 3,938 per 100,000 people 
#24   Czech Republic: 3,860 per 100,000 people 
#25   Portugal: 3,758 per 100,000 people 
#26   Burma: 2,867 per 100,000 people 
#27   Moldova: 2,481 per 100,000 people 
#28   Azerbaijan: 2,190 per 100,000 people 
#29   Panama: 1,484 per 100,000 people 
#30   Luxembourg: 1,321 per 100,000 people 
#31   Romania: 1,291 per 100,000 people 
#32   Slovakia: 1,119 per 100,000 people 
#33   Costa Rica: 1,099 per 100,000 people 
#34   Denmark: 1,053 per 100,000 people 
#35   Iceland: 994 per 100,000 people 
#36   Norway: 987.1 per 100,000 people 
#37   Lithuania: 937 per 100,000 people 
#38   Uruguay: 857 per 100,000 people 
#39   Tunisia: 815 per 100,000 people 
#40   Latvia: 629 per 100,000 people 
#41   United States: 560.1 per 100,000 people 
#42   Cyprus: 436 per 100,000 people 
#43   Thailand: 428.9 per 100,000 people 
#44   Malta: 341 per 100,000 people 
#45   Chile: 324 per 100,000 people 
#46   Maldives: 293 per 100,000 people 
#47   Albania: 250 per 100,000 people 
#48   Oman: 247 per 100,000 people 
#49   Nepal: 201 per 100,000 people 
#50   Ireland: 190.2 per 100,000 people 
#51   France: 176.1 per 100,000 people 
#52   Malaysia: 48.6 per 100,000 people 
#53   Singapore: 46.8 per 100,000 people 
#54   Hong Kong: 34 per 100,000 people 
#55   Greece: 33.3 per 100,000 people 
#56   Spain: 27.9 per 100,000 people 
#57   Korea, South: 9.9 per 100,000 people 
#58   Turkey: 4.6 per 100,000 people 
#59   China: 3.9 per 100,000 people 
#60   Indonesia: 3.4 per 100,000 people 
Weighted average: 16,742.1 per 100,000 people  


DEFINITION: Drug offence cases per 100,000 population (2000).

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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1st August 2005 		I think the first couple of countries may not have the highest, it's just that the efficiency is their system is higher.
Grunter (New Zealand)
29th June 2007 		Looks like the countries with the highest rate of drug offences are also those with low murder rates. Does that mean that the police in those countries have more opportunity to deal with drug crime that those in countries where "serious" crime is much more common?

Or perhaps, the percieved hih rate of drug crime is simply because these countries have a much lower tolerance for drug offences. eg Marijuana, which is either legal or ignored in many other countries.
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