South Africa ranks among countries with highest crime rates
Updated | By Breakfast with Martin Bester
South Africa has made the Top 10 list of countries with the highest criminality.
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This is definitely not the Top 10 list any country wants to be a part of.
Every day, South Africans all across the country are faced with the impact of extremely high levels of criminal activity.
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It would thus not come as a shock that South Africa has ranked among the Top 10 countries with the highest criminality.
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime (GI-TOC) recently released its global organised crime index report which ranks the criminally of 193 countries.
South Africa ranked 7th out of 193 countries.
Here is the full Top 10 list:
- Myanmar
- Colombia
- Mexico
- Paraguay
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Nigeria
- South Africa
- Iraq
- Afghanistan
- Lebanon
According to The Citizen, the index is measured by criminal markets and criminal actors in each country. Look at this interactive map to see where each country ranks.
READ: Middle-income South Africans lose over R10,000 a month
Interestingly, Africa is the continent with the second highest criminality after Asia.
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