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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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