Crime Stats: compare key data on Nauru & United States

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	Nauru	United States
Illicit drugs	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	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
Prisoners	6 prisoners Ranked 158th.	2.02 million prisoners Ranked 1st. 336539 times more than Nauru
Prisoners > Per capita	48 per 100,000 people Ranked 135th.	715 per 100,000 people Ranked 1st. 15 times more than Nauru
Violent crime > Murder rate	1 Ranked 181st.	12,996 Ranked 9th. 12996 times more than Nauru
Violent crime > Murders	1 Ranked 182nd.	12,996 Ranked 9th. 12996 times more than Nauru

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; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Source tables

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