Recent statistics shows that USA has the highest number of prisoners in the world. In 2010, USA had 2,266,832 prisoners. Find below the recent statistics of the population of people incarcerated in the USA and other countries as at 02/17/2011, is it safe to say USA is the crime capital of the world ?

# 1 United States: 2,019,234 prisoners
# 2 China: 1,549,000 prisoners
# 3 Russia: 846,967 prisoners
# 4 India: 313,635 prisoners
# 5 Brazil: 308,304 prisoners
# 6 Thailand: 213,815 prisoners
# 7 Ukraine: 198,386 prisoners

SOURCE: http://www.dailypaul.com/157495/1st-place-united-states-2019234-prisoners-2nd-place-china

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Nufin said

@topic, yes, we can say it is (from the statistics that is)

but hey, we know most nations literally worship those people. Crime committed within (is mostly hushed and covered from the news) and without (are mostly hushed by other nations for fear of getting on the wrong side of the US).
But they'll gladly show the rest of Africa and other less developed nations and label them evil.

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Nufin said

^^I'm soooo tagging u!! Lol...

@topic, maybe they (the U.S) are just good at catching and sentencing the criminals. I know China is.

A friend of mine used to say something, There are 3 kinds of Lies - a real lie, a half-truth, and STATISTICS!