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Crime Stats: compare key data on Burma & United States

Definitions

  • Age of criminal responsibility: The age at which a person is no longer excluded from criminal liability.  The lowest age is indicated for countries where there isn’t a single age limit, for example where different states have different regulations (such as the USA) or there is different limits for boy and girls (such as in Iran). The spectrum is specifically wide for the USA and Mexico (both 6-12 years). Several US states do not stipulate any minimal age for criminal responsibility at all. For further qualifications, exceptions and other notes, please refer to notes.
  • Burglaries: Number of burglaries recorded by police in that country per 100,000 population.
  • Drugs > Annual cannabis use: Estimate of percentage of 15-64 year old population who use Cannabis.
  • Drugs > Opiates use: Annual prevalence.
  • Justice system > Punishment > Capital punishment (last execution year): Year of last use.
  • Murders with firearms per million: Total recorded intentional homicides committed with a firearm. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.
  • Police officers: Number of police officers per 100,000 population.
  • Robberies: Number of robberies recorded by police in that country per 100,000 population.
  • Total crimes: Note: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
  • Total crimes per 1000: Note: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. Figures expressed per thousand population for the same year.
  • Violent crime > Intentional homicide rate: Homicides per 100’000 residents. Homicide is the death of a person purposefully inflicted by another person (it excludes suicides) outside of a state of war. Homicide is a broader category than murder, as it also includes manslaughter. The exact legal definition varies across countries, some of which include infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and deaths caused by dangerous driving.
  • Violent crime > Murder rate: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population.
  • Violent crime > Murder rate per million people: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
  • Violent crime > Murders: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population.
  • Violent crime > Murders per million people: Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
  • Murders with firearms: Total recorded intentional homicides committed with a firearm. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
  • Prisoners: Total persons incarcerated
  • Assaults: Number of assaults recorded by police in that country per 100,000 population.
  • Auto theft: Number of motor vehicle thefts (car thefts) recorded by police in that country per 100,000 population.
  • Murders > WHO: Intentional homicide rate is the estimate of intentional homicides in a country as a result of domestic disputes that end in a killing, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, inter-gang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. The term, intentional homicide, is broad, but it does not include all intentional killing. In particular, deaths arising from armed conflict are usually considered separately. The difference is usually described by the organisation of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas the killing in armed conflict is usually committed by more or less cohesive groups of up to several hundred members. Two main sources of data are presented: criminal justice (law enforcement) measures (this series), supplemented by data from national statistical agencies, and measures from public health sources (see other intentional homicide series). These various sources measure slightly different phenomena and are therefore unlikely to provide identical numbers."
  • Drug offences: Drug offence cases per 100,000 population (2000).
  • Sentence Length: Total average sentence length served
  • Illicit drugs: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
  • Frauds: Total recorded frauds. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
  • Serious assaults: Number of major assaults recorded by police in that country per 100,000 population.
  • Prisoners per 1000: Total persons incarcerated. Figures expressed per thousand population for the same year.
  • Judges: Number of professional judges per 100,000 population.
  • Drugs > HIV testing amongst drug users: Estimated percentage of injecting drug users who have been tested for HIV.
  • Judges and Magistrates: Number of Judges and Magistrates
  • Car thefts: Total recorded automobile thefts. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
  • Car thefts per 1000: Total recorded automobile thefts. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. Figures expressed per thousand population for the same year.
  • Adults prosecuted: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
  • Prosecutors: Number of prosecutors per 100,000 population.
  • Judges and Magistrates per million: Number of Judges and Magistrates. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.
  • Prison staff: Number of correction staff in adult prisons per 100,000 population.
  • Jails: Total number of adult prisons, penal or correctional institutions (excluding temporary jail lock-ups). Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
  • Adults prosecuted per 1000: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. Figures expressed per thousand population for the same year.
  • Frauds per 1000: Total recorded frauds. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. Figures expressed per thousand population for the same year.
  • Embezzlements: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
  • Jails per million: Total number of adult prisons, penal or correctional institutions (excluding temporary jail lock-ups). Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.
  • Embezzlements per million: Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.
STAT
Burma
United States
HISTORY
Age of criminal responsibility 7
Ranked 52nd. 17% more than United States
6
Ranked 58th.
Burglaries 0.0
Ranked 6th.
714.4
Ranked 9th.

Drugs > Annual cannabis use 0.9%
Ranked 14th.
13.7%
Ranked 1st. 15 times more than Burma
Drugs > Opiates use 0.8%
Ranked 2nd. 40% more than United States
0.57%
Ranked 3rd.
Justice system > Punishment > Capital punishment (last execution year) 1,993
Ranked 34th.
2,014
Ranked 1st. 1% more than Burma
Murders with firearms per million 0.548
Ranked 42nd.
32.57
Ranked 10th. 59 times more than Burma
Police officers 146.6
Ranked 9th.
243.6
Ranked 27th. 66% more than Burma
Robberies 29.7
Ranked 5th.
146.4
Ranked 10th. 5 times more than Burma
Total crimes 18,301
Ranked 68th.
11.88 million
Ranked 1st. 649 times more than Burma
Total crimes per 1000 0.372
Ranked 80th.
41.29
Ranked 22nd. 111 times more than Burma
Violent crime > Intentional homicide rate 1.6
Ranked 76th.
4.7
Ranked 7th. 3 times more than Burma

Violent crime > Murder rate 4,800
Ranked 23th.
12,996
Ranked 9th. 3 times more than Burma

Violent crime > Murder rate per million people 93.8
Ranked 66th. 2 times more than United States
42.01
Ranked 43th.

Violent crime > Murders 4,800
Ranked 23th.
12,996
Ranked 9th. 3 times more than Burma

Violent crime > Murders per million people 93.8
Ranked 66th. 2 times more than United States
42.01
Ranked 43th.

Murders with firearms 27
Ranked 33th.
9,369
Ranked 4th. 347 times more than Burma
Prisoners 32,797 prisoners
Ranked 42nd.
2.02 million prisoners
Ranked 1st. 62 times more than Burma
Assaults 17
Ranked 11th.
786.7
Ranked 1st. 46 times more than Burma
Auto theft 0.1
Ranked 8th.
390.2
Ranked 6th. 3902 times more than Burma

Murders > WHO 15.7
Ranked 40th. 3 times more than United States
5.6
Ranked 88th.
Drug offences 2,867 per 100,000 people
Ranked 26th. 5 times more than United States
560.1 per 100,000 people
Ranked 41st.
Sentence Length 16,616
Ranked 2nd. 573 times more than United States
29
Ranked 30th.
Illicit drugs remains world's second-largest producer of illicit opium with an estimated production in 2008 of 340 metric tons, an increase of 26%, and cultivation in 2008 was 22,500 hectares, a 4% increase from 2007; production in the United Wa State Army's areas of greatest control remains low; Shan state is the source of 94% of poppy cultivation; lack of government will to take on major narcotrafficking groups and lack of serious commitment against money laundering continues to hinder the overall antidrug effort; major source of methamphetamine and heroin for regional consumption; currently under Financial Action Task Force countermeasures due to continued failure to address its inadequate money-laundering controls world's largest consumer of cocaine (shipped from Colombia through Mexico and the Caribbean), Colombian heroin, and Mexican heroin and marijuana; major consumer of ecstasy and Mexican methamphetamine; minor consumer of high-quality Southeast Asian heroin; illicit producer of cannabis, marijuana, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and methamphetamine; money-laundering center
Frauds 1,560
Ranked 48th.
371,800
Ranked 2nd. 238 times more than Burma
Serious assaults 5.9
Ranked 7th.
281.6
Ranked 1st. 48 times more than Burma
Prisoners per 1000 0.666 prisoners
Ranked 115th.
7.02 prisoners
Ranked 2nd. 11 times more than Burma
Judges 2.4%
Ranked 9th.
10.8%
Ranked 3rd. 5 times more than Burma

Drugs > HIV testing amongst drug users 27.31%
Ranked 37th.
46.8%
Ranked 12th. 71% more than Burma

Judges and Magistrates 1,149
Ranked 26th.
29,023
Ranked 3rd. 25 times more than Burma
Car thefts 27
Ranked 72nd.
1.25 million
Ranked 1st. 46152 times more than Burma
Car thefts per 1000 0.000548
Ranked 73th.
4.33
Ranked 11th. 7904 times more than Burma
Adults prosecuted 16,129
Ranked 33th.
14.2 million
Ranked 1st. 881 times more than Burma
Prosecutors 2.5%
Ranked 5th.
8.8%
Ranked 1st. 4 times more than Burma

Judges and Magistrates per million 23.32
Ranked 55th.
100.91
Ranked 31st. 4 times more than Burma
Prison staff 6.8%
Ranked 12th.
138.3%
Ranked 1st. 20 times more than Burma

Jails 40
Ranked 41st.
1,558
Ranked 6th. 39 times more than Burma
Adults prosecuted per 1000 0.327
Ranked 43th.
49.38
Ranked 2nd. 151 times more than Burma
Frauds per 1000 0.0317
Ranked 76th.
1.29
Ranked 24th. 41 times more than Burma
Embezzlements 1,013
Ranked 33th.
17,300
Ranked 4th. 17 times more than Burma
Jails per million 0.812
Ranked 76th.
5.42
Ranked 24th. 7 times more than Burma
Embezzlements per million 20.56
Ranked 46th.
60.15
Ranked 39th. 3 times more than Burma

SOURCES: Wikipedia: Defense of infancy (Ages of criminal responsibility by country); European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control International Statistics on Crime and Justice, 2011; https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/WDR2011/World_Drug_Report_2011_ebook.pdf, World Drug Report 2011, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 2011, p. 217.; Wikipedia: List of countries by prevalence of opiates use ("World Drug Report 2011" . United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. 2011. "World Drug Report 2006" . United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. 2006. http://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2009/WDR2009_eng_web.pdf); Wikipedia: Capital punishment in Europe (Abolition); 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). Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control International Statistics on Crime and Justice, 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); 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). Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Wikipedia: List of countries by intentional homicide rate by decade; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Source tables; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; World Health Organisation.; 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); CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Source tables; 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); 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). Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

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