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Crime Stats: compare key data on Cayman Islands & United States

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STAT Cayman Islands United States HISTORY
Illicit drugs offshore financial center; vulnerable to drug transshipment to the US and Europe 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
Violent crime > Murder rate 5
Ranked 170th.
12,996
Ranked 9th. 2599 times more than Cayman Islands

Violent crime > Murder rate per million people 94.5
Ranked 65th. 2 times more than United States
42.01
Ranked 43th.

Violent crime > Murders 5
Ranked 170th.
12,996
Ranked 9th. 2599 times more than Cayman Islands

Violent crime > Murders per million people 94.5
Ranked 65th. 2 times more than United States
42.01
Ranked 43th.

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; 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.

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