11 Countries with the Highest Crime Rate per Capita in the World: 2016 Rankings

4. The USA

Score – 53

Well, with the way things are going in the United States nowadays, with mass shootings taking place more frequently, it’s enough to check out the news and figure out the country has a rather high crime rate. The United Nations ranks the United States of America among the nations with the highest crime rates on five different lists – burglary, robbery, theft, rape and assault. It ranks 4th on our list of countries with the highest crime rate per capita in the world.

There are, obviously, many other issues that you should be careful about when out in the open in the United States, but these seem to be the top of the top. That’s not to say that the homicide rate is low, or that people are safe from the other types of crime we’ve been covering here, thanks to data from the United Nations. In fact, the FBI’s data shows the US total violent crime had a 386.9 rate per 100,000 population in 2013, excluding, of course, all those unreported crimes that have taken places. Total property crime, on the other hand, ranks even higher with 2,859.2 per 100,000 population.

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