See The Top 10 African Countries With The Highest Crime Rates

While crime rates are increasing globally, resilience measures are not keeping up with the growing dangers.

According to a research published by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, an independent civil society organization that monitors crime statistics around the world.

According to the study, a country’s ability to manage economic crises and social fragmentation in their countries has shrunk as a result of concerns with the integrity of elected officials and increased government repression.

According to the findings of the 2023 Index, complete democracies continue to be more robust to organized crime than authoritarian governments.

Good governance procedures that are open, transparent, founded in the rule of law, and foster active citizen involvement lay the groundwork for both state and non-state responses to criminal threats.

Having mentioned that Africa faces a significant number of these perilous challenges. The concerning number of coups in Africa in recent years is due to widespread dissatisfaction with certain of its administrations.

Dissatisfaction is a result of bad living conditions, and as a result, crime is on the rise. While many African countries are relatively crime-free, some are not. The ten African countries with the highest crime rates are shown below.

Methodology

“The first component of the Index, criminality, consists of two subcomponents: criminal markets and criminal actors. The former is defined as the political, social, and economic systems surrounding all stages of the illicit trade in and/or exploitation of commodities or people.”

Thus, three essential components form the basis of the Global Organized Crime Index: 15 illicit marketplaces’ size, reach, and influence The makeup and sway of five categories of criminal actors and 12 resilience-building components are used to assess a country’s vulnerability to organized crime as well as its potential to withstand it.

This list is courtesy of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime and Business Insider Africa.