From: [REDACTED] at [hprnd.rose.hp.com] (Steve Kao) Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns Subject: Re: A probable FAQ Date: 25 Oct 1993 21:37:55 GMT RKBA.016 - Is the United States the most violent nation? Version 1.2 (last changed on 91/03/22 at 13:05:06) DESCRIPTION =========== A spate of media "claims" implying that the United States is the highest crime rate nations in the world has been observed in the media recently. However, if we were to look at homicide, rape, and larceny (burglary, robbery, etc.) we find a quite different story. In homicide, the US is number 11, with a murder rate of 9.60 per 100,000. The nearest European country in the Netherlands, with a homicide rate of 7.15 per 100,000. However, elimination of high crime inner city rates pushes the per capita down to 3.77, below such countries as Luxemburg (5.25), Finland (4.88), West Germany (4.47), Scotland (3.82), and somewhat barely above Sweden (3.36). Places such as Norway are not known to have massive illegal aliens, drug misuse problems, or large cultural inhomogeneities. Of even more interest is the TREMENDOUSLY larger per capita rape numbers in the "non-violent peace loving" European counties. The Unites States at 26.30 is below such countries as Australia (90.82), West Germany (77.49), New Zealand (65.73), Netherlands (56.00), Scotland (44.69), Denmark (41.06), Sweden (40.52), Austria (30.42). In the category of larceny (robbery, burglary etc.), the United States is below Italy and New Zealand, and somewhat above Denmark, West Germany, Scotland, Sweden, Austria, and England & Wales. CONCLUSION ========== The United States is NOT the most violent country in the world. While high in homicide, there are several European nations that have similar per capita homicide rates, without the presence of large scale drug problems or immigrant & illegal alien situations. In terms of rape, the US lags TREMENDOUSLY behind some of the "civilized" and "non-violent" European countries. In larceny (burglary, robbery), the US is again not a leader. In short, given all the problems that the US has that European countries do NOT have, the US is surprisingly non-violent (relatively speaking). H O M I C I D E PER ABSOLUTE RANK COUNTRY 100,000 NUMBERS ==== ========================== ======= ======== 01 Lesotho 140.81 1,592 02 Bahamas 22.88 45 03 Guyana 22.21 610 05 Netherlands Antilles 12.47 29 06 Iraq 11.94 1,243 07 Sri Lanka 11.92 1,597 08 Cyprus 11.11 71 09 Trinidad & Tobago 10.41 113 10 Jamaica 10.25 205 11 United States 9.60 18,155 12 Kuwait 9.18 78 13 Tanzania 8.98 1,295 14 Kenya 8.66 1,047 15 Madagascar 8.14 692 16 Burma 8.06 2,304 17 Venezuela 7.19 834 18 Netherlands 7.15 964 19 Chile 6.69 723 20 St.Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla 6.67 4 21 Jordan 6.06 103 22 Syria 5.52 331 23 Luxembourg 5.25 21 24 Mali 5.02 251 25 Finland 4.88 229 26 Malawi 4.57 183 27 West Germany 4.47 2,771 28 Monaco 4.40 1 29 Sierra Leone 4.00 120 30 Sconand 3.82 199 31 Libya 3.77 85 32 Egypt 3.45 1,241 33 India 3.40 19,480 34 Sweden 3.36 275 35 Austria 3.06 229 36 Italy 2.95 1,643 37 Singapore 2.77 62 38 Nigeria 2.75 1,510 39 Australia & Papua New Guinea 2.73 411 40 France 2.70 1,429 41 Philippines 2.68 1,106 42 Hong Kong 2.59 110 43 Malaysia 2.49 298 44 Peru 2.44 376 45 England & Wales 2.24 1,102 46 Denmark 2.03 102 47 Japan 1.74 1,912 48 New Zealand 1.51 46 49 South Korea 1.33 460 50 Zaire 1.19 286 51 Molocco 1.11 199 52 Ivory Coast 1.09 63 53 Solomon Islands 1.08 2 54 Greece 0.87 77 55 Indonesia 0.87 1,120 56 Uganda 0.83 83 57 Fiji 0.71 4 58 Spain 0.67 233 59 Norway 0.50 20 ------------------------ R A P E ----------------- PER ABSOLUTE RANK COUNTRY 100,000 NUMBERS ==== ======================== ======= ======== 1 Australia 90.82 13,674 2 West Germany 77.49 48,075 3 Solomon Islands 76.96 142 4 Venezuela 66.84 7,754 5 New Zealand 65.73 2,000 6 Bahamas 62.02 122 7 Libya 56.58 1,277 8 Netherlands 56.00 7,554 9 England & Wales 50.20 24,698 10 Lesotho 49.53 560 11 Kuwait 48.35 411 12 Netherlands Antilles 46.96 109 13 Scotland 44.69 2,330 14 Denmark 41.06 2,068 15 Sweden 40.52 3,313 16 Guyana 34.50 264 17 Hong Kong 32.97 1,401 18 Austria 30.42 2,274 19 Peru 29.14 4,482 20 St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla 26.67 16 21 Monaco 26.41 6 22 United States 26.30 40,168 23 France 26.19 13,828 24 Fiji 26.07 147 25 Lebanon 25.93 778 26 Trinidad & Tobago 25.23 274 27 Jamaica 24.95 499 28 Norway 23.43 931 23 Chile 22.51 2,362 30 Uganda 16.48 1,648 31 South Korea 13.90 4,854 32 Morocco 12.69 2,284 33 Spain 12.21 4,310 34 Italy 11.87 6,605 35 Malawi 11.45 458 36 Tanzania 10.31 1,487 37 Japan 10.30 11,338 38 Kenya 9.76 1,180 39 Finland 9.44 443 40 Luxembourg 9.25 37 41 Jordan 7.71 131 42 Sierra Leone 7.47 224 43 Zaire 5.85 1,404 44 Mali 5.60 280 45 Malaysia 4.72 564 46 Burma 3.79 1,085 47 Singapore 3.67 82 48 Iraq 3.65 380 49 Madagascar 3.25 276 50 Nigeria 2 60 1,428 51 Greece 2.31 203 52 Sri Lanka 1.53 205 53 Philippines 1.08 447 54 Indonesia 0.90 1,162 55 Cyprus 0.63 40 56 Syria 0.52 31 57 India 0.51 2,919 58 Egypt 0.34 122 59 Ivory Coast 0.17 10 -------------------- L A R C E N Y ----------------- PER ABSOLUTE RANK COUNTRY 100,000 NUMBERS ==== ======================== ======== ========= 1 Italy 2,355.68 1,310,798 2 Bahamas 2,267.83 4,461 3 New Zealand 2,193.93 66,757 4 United States 1,744.00 2,641,000 5 Denmark 1,723.71 86,809 6 West Germany 1,611.12 999,861 7 Guyana 1,555.07 11,901 8 Scotland 1,486.65 77,499 9 Sweden 1,427.51 116,723 10 Austria 1,214.16 90,771 11 England & Wales 1,001.11 492,498 12 Australia & Papua New Guinea 888.63 133,795 13 Netherlands 863.72 2,009 14 Lesotho 861.05 9,735 15 Norway 815.00 32,380 16 Netherlands Antilles 802.19 108,190 17 Luxembourg 493.00 1,972 18 Hong Kong 450.18 19,128 19 Trinidad & Tobago 428.14 4,649 20 Jamaica 402.75 8,055 21 France 387.70 204,630 22 Spain 360.54 127,215 23 Peru 333.89 51,362 24 Fiji 275.27 1,552 25 St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla 256.67 154 26 Chile 231.85 24,331 27 South Korea 231.60 80,348 28 Monaro 215.66 49 29 Venezuela 199.41 23,131 30 Malawi 197.42 7,897 31 Tanzania 155.24 22,384 32 Cyprus 149.61 956 33 Lebanon 145.30 4,359 34 Kenya 133.28 16,101 35 Finland 131.38 6,163 36 Nigeria 126.86 69,775 37 Kuwait 101.76 865 38 Sierra Leone 96.67 2,900 39 Solomon Islands 91.06 168 40 Singapore 78.04 1,745 41 India 66.19 379,412 42 Libya 50.15 1,132 43 Sri Lanka 31.68 4,243 44 Madagascar 27.25 2,316 45 Jordan 22.71 386 46 Morocco 21.10 3,798 47 Zaire 21.07 5,059 48 Malaysia 20.84 2,493 49 Mali 19.08 954 50 Burma 14.95 4,275 51 Syria 12.00 720 52 Ivory Coast 10.96 636 53 Uganda 5.36 536 54 Indonesia 2.95 3,802 55 Iraq 2.79 290 56 Philippines 2.09 865 57 Japan 1.94 2,140 58 Greece 1.18 104 Sources: BWR84 -end- -- --- --- [p--l] at [netcom.com] (Phil Ronzone) Hey, let's nuke "The Simpsons" and replace it with the "Itchy & Scratch Show"! 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