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Top 50 Most Criminal Countries in the World

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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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