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Treat the below figures with caution. Some of these do not include all crime in the total. We have also eliminated South Africa from this table on the grounds that the figures in the UN statistics were below those for the US and other countries known to be safer in reality...
| Rates per 100,000 | ||||||
| Country | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
| New Zealand | 12947 | 12859 | 12591 | 12174 | 11496 | 11152 |
| Finland | 7472 | 7352 | 7273 | 7442 | 9867 | 10243 |
| England, Wales | 9733 | 9612 | 8775 | 9745 | 10061 | 9767 |
| Denmark | 10309 | 10043 | 10051 | 9416 | 9291 | 9450 |
| Netherlands | 7910 | 7635 | 7803 | 7793 | 8129 | 8212 |
| Canada | 9243 | 9242 | 8789 | 8503 | 8118 | 8041 |
| Germany | 8168 | 8117 | 8022 | 7874 | 7676 | 7621 |
| Norway | 6557 | 6671 | 6995 | 7181 | 7083 | 7350 |
| USA | 9921 | 9661 | 9467 | 8923 | 8517 | . |
| France | 4332 | 4425 | 4789 | 6105 | 6088 | 6404 |
| Hungary | 4907 | 4569 | 5043 | 5947 | 5007 | 4501 |
| Australia | 3510 | 3665 | 3893 | 4088 | 4170 | 4504 |
| Switzerland | 4296 | 4408 | 4761 | 4669 | 4356 | 3774 |
| Italy | 3964 | 4221 | 4245 | 4210 | 4120 | 3823 |
| Portugal | 3290 | 3245 | 3234 | 3422 | 3630 | 3633 |
| Sth Korea | 2671 | 2829 | 3040 | 3405 | 3358 | 3263 |
| Ireland | 2845 | 2775 | 2476 | 2307 | 2166 | . |
| Poland | 2527 | 2326 | 2564 | 2773 | 2898 | 3274 |
| Greece | 3146 | 3328 | 3598 | 2436 | 2368 | 1970 |
| Bulgaria | 2464 | 2348 | 2909 | 1986 | 1767 | 1823 |
| Singapore | . | 1305 | 1228 | 1248 | 924 | 764 |
| Japan | 1421 | 1438 | 1508 | 1614 | 1705 | 1924 |
| Hong Kong | 1530 | 1287 | 1070 | 1127 | 1188 | 1186 |
| Malaysia | 499 | 527 | 693 | 716 | 745 | 717 |
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