Top 50 Most Criminal Countries in the World

A crime rate is a measure of the number of crimes committed in a given area over a specific period of time.

It is usually expressed as the number of crimes per 1,000 people per year. For example, if a city has a population of 100,000 people and 1,000 crimes are committed in that city in a year, the crime rate would be 10 per 1,000 people.

Crimes are classified based on severity, such as violent crimes (murder, assault, robbery), property crimes (burglary, theft, vandalism), and white-collar crimes (fraud, embezzlement).

Below are the top 50 most criminal countries in the world, based on data compiled by Numbeo in 2023:

1. Venezuela
2. Papua New Guinea
3. Afghanistan
4. Haiti
5. South Africa
6. Honduras
7. Trinidad and Tobago
8. Syria
9. Guyana
10. Jamaica
11. Peru
12. Somalia
13. Brazil
14. Nigeria
15. Angola
16. Namibia
17. Cameroon
18. Argentina
19. Mozambique
20. Bangladesh
21. El Salvador
22. Bolivia
23. Puerto Rico
24. US Virgin Islands
25. Dominican Republic
26. Colombia
27. Ecuador
28. Zimbabwe
29. Libya
30. Bahamas
31. Guatemala
32. Chile
33. Ivory Coast
34. Kenya
35. Fiji
36. Uganda
37. Maldives
38. France
39. Tanzania
40. Mexico
41. Kyrgyzstan
42. Costa Rica
43. Mongolia
44. Cambodia
45. Botswana
46. Belize
47. Uruguay
48. Malaysia
49. Belarus
50. Algeria

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