Crime Stats: compare key data on Australia & Nauru

Illicit drugs: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
Prisoners: Total persons incarcerated
Prisoners > Per capita: Data for 2003. Number of prisoners held per 100,000 population.
Violent crime > Murder rate: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population.
Violent crime > Murders: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population.

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STAT	Australia	Nauru
Illicit drugs	Tasmania is one of the world's major suppliers of licit opiate products; government maintains strict controls over areas of opium poppy cultivation and output of poppy straw concentrate; major consumer of cocaine and amphetamines	offshore banking recently stopped, remains on Financial Action Task Force Non-Cooperative Countries and Territories List for continued failure to address deficiencies in money-laundering control regime
Prisoners	22,492 prisoners Ranked 46th. 3749 times more than Nauru	6 prisoners Ranked 158th.
Prisoners > Per capita	116 per 100,000 people Ranked 73th. 2 times more than Nauru	48 per 100,000 people Ranked 135th.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed	May 14, 1974<br>September 4, 1990	December 22, 1931
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force	May 8, 1976<br>December 21, 1992	August 30, 1935
Violent crime > Murder rate	229 Ranked 42nd. 229 times more than Nauru	1 Ranked 181st.
Violent crime > Murders	229 Ranked 42nd. 229 times more than Nauru	1 Ranked 182nd.

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; 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; Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Source tables

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