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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:
- Venezuela
- Papua New Guinea
- Afghanistan
- Haiti
- South Africa
- Honduras
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Syria
- Guyana
- Jamaica
- Peru
- Somalia
- Brazil
- Nigeria
- Angola
- Namibia
- Cameroon
- Argentina
- Mozambique
- Bangladesh
- El Salvador
- Bolivia
- Puerto Rico
- US Virgin Islands
- Dominican Republic
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Zimbabwe
- Libya
- Bahamas
- Guatemala
- Chile
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Fiji
- Uganda
- Maldives
- France
- Tanzania
- Mexico
- Kyrgyzstan
- Costa Rica
- Mongolia
- Cambodia
- Botswana
- Belize
- Uruguay
- Malaysia
- Belarus
- Algeria
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