Pretty interesting stats site

I stumbled across this today. It's got some pretty interesting stats, I was only interested in the ones concerning crime. Here's a few unique ones, I highlighted the US in each, because I live here. :-P

Murders Per Capita
Colombia0.63 per 1000 people
South Africa0.51 per 1000 people
Jamaica0.32 per 1000 people
Venezuela0.32 per 1000 people
Russia0.19 per 1000 people
Mexico0.13 per 1000 people
Lithuania0.10 per 1000 people
Estonia0.10 per 1000 people
Latvia0.10 per 1000 people
Belarus0.09 per 1000 people
Ukraine0.09 per 1000 people
Papua New Guinea0.08 per 1000 people
Kyrgyzstan0.08 per 1000 people
Thailand0.07 per 1000 people
Moldova0.07 per 1000 people
Zambia0.07 per 1000 people
Seychelles0.07 per 1000 people
Zimbabwe0.07 per 1000 people
Costa Rica0.06 per 1000 people
Poland0.05 per 1000 people
Georgia0.04 per 1000 people
Uruguay0.04 per 1000 people
Bulgaria0.04 per 1000 people
United States0.04 per 1000 people
Armenia0.03 per 1000 people


Number of Convictions
Egypt3,576,012 (2000)
United Kingdom1,398,271 (1999)
Russia1,183,631 (2000)
France1,069,553 (2000)
Turkey972,124 (1999)
India604,547 (1999)
Germany545,444 (1999)
Thailand468,984 (1999)
Italy308,300 (2000)
Canada295,912 (1999)
Spain277,597 (2000)
Ukraine230,903 (2000)
Chile226,652 (2000)
Korea, South175,343 (2000)
Finland173,140 (2000)
Mexico122,582 (2000)
Indonesia115,715 (2000)
Netherlands100,663 (1999)
Syria97,141 (1999)
New Zealand95,734 (2000)
Hungary95,213 (2000)
Romania89,423 (2000)
Colombia85,180 (1999)
Kazakhstan77,984 (2000)
Japan77,619 (2000)

Total Crimes per Capita
Dominica112.79 per 1000 people
New Zealand108.12 per 1000 people
Finland102.15 per 1000 people
Denmark93.64 per 1000 people
Chile90.00 per 1000 people
United Kingdom86.04 per 1000 people
Montserrat83.49 per 1000 people
United States81.55 per 1000 people
Netherlands80.84 per 1000 people
South Africa80.02 per 1000 people
Canada76.89 per 1000 people
Germany76.02 per 1000 people
Norway72.60 per 1000 people
France62.67 per 1000 people
Seychelles53.39 per 1000 people
Hungary44.80 per 1000 people
Estonia41.03 per 1000 people
Czech Republic38.19 per 1000 people
Italy38.03 per 1000 people
Switzerland37.02 per 1000 people
Portugal35.96 per 1000 people
Slovenia34.93 per 1000 people
Poland32.80 per 1000 people
Korea, South31.95 per 1000 people
Mauritius29.69 per 1000 people

Murders with Firearms per Capita
South Africa0.74 per 1000 people
Colombia0.52 per 1000 people
Thailand0.31 per 1000 people
Zimbabwe0.04 per 1000 people
Mexico0.03 per 1000 people
Costa Rica0.03 per 1000 people
Belarus0.03 per 1000 people
United States0.02 per 1000 people
Uruguay0.02 per 1000 people
Lithuania0.02 per 1000 people
Slovakia0.02 per 1000 people
Czech Republic0.02 per 1000 people
Estonia0.01 per 1000 people
Latvia0.01 per 1000 people
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of0.01 per 1000 people
Bulgaria0.00 per 1000 people
Portugal0.00 per 1000 people
Slovenia0.00 per 1000 people
Switzerland0.00 per 1000 people
Canada0.00 per 1000 people
Germany0.00 per 1000 people
Moldova0.00 per 1000 people
Hungary0.00 per 1000 people
Poland0.00 per 1000 people
Ukraine0.00 per 1000 people

Burglaries per Capita
Australia22.13 per 1000 people
Dominica18.62 per 1000 people
Denmark18.49 per 1000 people
Finland16.87 per 1000 people
New Zealand16.62 per 1000 people
Estonia16.52 per 1000 people
United Kingdom13.91 per 1000 people
Poland9.44 per 1000 people
South Africa9.22 per 1000 people
Canada9.11 per 1000 people
Iceland8.57 per 1000 people
Montserrat8.56 per 1000 people
Switzerland8.25 per 1000 people
Slovenia8.24 per 1000 people
Czech Republic7.24 per 1000 people
United States7.23 per 1000 people
Hungary7.13 per 1000 people
France6.16 per 1000 people
Ireland5.87 per 1000 people
Netherlands5.64 per 1000 people
Bulgaria5.23 per 1000 people
Slovakia4.69 per 1000 people
Portugal4.68 per 1000 people
Zimbabwe4.39 per 1000 people
Latvia4.20 per 1000 people

Drug Offences (top)
Norway987.1
Switzerland648.4
New Zealand641.6
United States560.1
Belgium448.7
Thailand428.9
Sweden349.9
Germany297.3
Canada285.5
Iceland277.9
Finland259.7
United Kingdom214.3
Ireland190.2
France176.1
Austria149.0
Italy60.3
Portugal59.6
Poland50.8
Malaysia48.6
Netherlands47.0
Singapore46.8
Czech Republic43.3
Hungary34.6
Hong Kong34.0
Greece33.3


I don't really have a point with this, other than I find it terribly interesting to browse the site and bounce from country to country, and crime to crime. Makes me wish I had a database of this stuff, oh, the interesting queries you could run. :)

You can check the site out here: www.nationmaster.com/index.php

WHY DON'T YOU GO GET A BLOG OR SOMETHING RARGH RAGHR CHRISTIAN ANGST RAGHR

I already have one, but I never update it.

Some interesting stuff on that site...

So the least corrupt country in the world is Finland? Canada wasn't even ON the scatter plot, which is odd when you consider the Liberal party... Anyways, I wouldn't trust that one site totally. Some of its' info seemed a little odd.

Funny that Columbia isn't on the Drug Offenses list.

Probably because Columbia doesn't have any drug laws.

You know what's stupid? Blogs. No one reads them. No one gives a @#%$. Most people are not interesting, do not live interesting lives, do not have interesting thoughts and do not have anything interesting to say. If they did they would have an outlet for it other than a stupid internet diary.

C'est tres vrai, Gash.

Gash, you should read a few blogs on occasion. Waxy.org is my favorite.

Maddox is a glorified blog.

No, Maddox is a website run by a funny person with interesting things to say. That is why it is a website with 2 million monthly visitors and not a blog that no one gives a @#%$ about.