The Caribbean Has The Highest Crime Rate in the World

[Frank_Carbonni]

Originally Posted by abrown17

I think he may mean that since the population is so small, the murders give a higher percentage. Like if 2 people lived in a country and one killed the other, 50% of the population would be murdered. That sounds high but it's only based on a population of 2 people. Hope that makes sense.

A better example would be a country like Nauru. It has about 10,000 people and is variously a country with one of the lowest murder rates (no murders) or one with one of the highest (a few years ago there was an incident where a guy killed three people or so and the country was up there with Jamaica, South Africa, and Colombia in murder rate).

[prettygurl876]

i am from jamaica....an i feel very safe i can walk on the road with out being shot or bombed it is not like conditions in middle east yet we are considered the worse because of how u apparantly do these test...how ever i am very upset with thoughs remarks yes we have the probs...but u must find probs if we are living in the third world so if you big shot ameriacans an europeans really want to help this deadliest country why dnt u give us some resourses to better or selfs??????

[jtur88]

Montserrat and Dominica also have the 1st and 3rd largest per-capita police forces in the world.

[cycintclaire]

It also depends which islands you go to in the Caribbean and where you go. Jamaica has a high crime rate but it is concentrated in a particular area, and it is not the area where tourist go. Jamaica has a higher crime rate per capita but mexico has like 50 times the amount of people but its crime rate is not much lower. Also islands like Barbados and St. Lucia have a lower crime rate than the U.S. and Mexico