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4.22 ROBBERY, 2000‐2010 (TOTAL)
Indicator definition Indicator definition Definición del indicador
Total number of offenses of robbery recorded by the Police. Robbery means the theft of property from a person, overcoming resistance by force or threat of force. Robbery should include muggings (bag‐snatching) and theft with violence, but should exclude pick‐pocketing and extorsion.
YEAR
COUNTRY 2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
77
63
80
97
86
92
162
215
165
176
125
Argentina
360,746
385,420
471,892
435,630
355,329
355,196
353,752
338,951
388,165
Barbados
454
326
289
302
289
330
367
393
394
383
411
Belize
571
547
568
435
432
631
503
487
497
485
Bolivia
9,100
9,686
8,447
8,472
Antigua and Barbuda
Brazil
7,365
8,571
8,728
10,846
13,569
13,678
12,863
899,184
777,927
893,724
848,387
844,228
879,897
811,705
Canada
32,084
30,990
32,437
34,641
34,182
32,372
32,463
30,405
Chile
97,158
89,644
74,462
78,252
93,462
89,633
91,902
91,982
55,079
69,715
91,520
84,127
74,171
94,254
55,435
19,956
21,610
23,554
23,120
40,707
45,545
43,185
52,467
53,821
93,496
81,399
27,539
Colombia (*7) Costa Rica (*7)
13,267
16,458
15,014
17,640
Dominican Republic Ecuador (*7)
55,175
49,471
47,776
45,697
46,618
47,076
51,641
53,277
14,162
14,221
El Salvador
10,041
7,209
4,905
4,152
12,072
10,987
9,154
9,595
9,779
9,554
Guatemala
18,622
17,589
18,120
19,106
16,875
14,494
9,154
9,587
9,777
9,537
Guyana
1,890
1,893
1,973
2,435
1,755
1,834
2,139
2,216
1,831
1,981
Jamaica
3,107
2,605
2,355
2,101
2,094
2,195
1,994
1,589
2,639
2,967
2,837
Mexico
508,444
531,598
510,010
510,156
510,250
511,321
541,949
607,471
655,116
679,823
741,764
Nicaragua (*7)
17,920
20,527
21,056
21,532
21,328
21,378
24,348
27,867
33,512
32,442
28,429
4,960
5,249
5,843
6,352
7,861
8,145
9,506
2,426
1,819
2,541
1,894
4,154
17,968
21,696
25,479
38,584
42,908
45,594
45,997
41,606
42,931
48,785
28,951
354
421
470
443
454
527
550
539
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
62
73
79
56
47
68
17
Suriname
593
700
2,020
1,836
1,906
1,661
Panama Paraguay (*7)
3,799
4,593
4,668
312
340
358
Peru (*7) Saint Lucia
Trinidad and Tobago United States
2,740
4,792
4,940
5,220
5,109
4,468
5,338
6,350
5,312
5,399
6,289
5,498
408,020
423,546
420,850
414,237
401,470
417,438
449,246
447,324
443,563
408,742
357,832
10,705
11,391
13,829
Uruguay
6,751
6,147
8,483
6,933
7,000
8,352
8,867
9,174
Venezuela
35,251
30,461
38,587
38,254
29,001
27,374
27,842
29,132
AMERICAS (28 countries)(*1)(*2)
15,982
2,638,509 2,693,590 2,760,822 2,715,239 2,614,514 2,515,853 2,727,983 2,784,666 2,834,568 2,859,111 2,745,507
Sub‐regional data: (*2) Caribbean (*3) (7 countries) Central America (*4) (6 countries) North America (*5) (3 countries) South America (*6) (12 countries)
61,270
60,803
60,831
60,493
59,887
60,965
63,216
101,514
90,570
37,972
36,966
65,381 67,291 64,623 67,824 75,623 74,350 72,556 77,007 84,546 103,348 100,696 948,548 987,228 962,944 956,477 942,710 961,196 1,025,836 1,088,977 1,131,051 1,121,028 1,130,001 1,563,310 1,578,268 1,672,424 1,630,445 1,536,294 1,419,342 1,566,376 1,517,167 1,528,401 1,596,763 1,477,844
Note (*1) Americas refers to the 28 countries included in this Table. (*2) Regional and sub‐regional information comes from data calculated for indicated year or nearest available yea. (*3) Data for Caribbean includes: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. (*4) Data for Central America includes: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. (*5) Data for North America includes: Canada, Mexico, and The United States. (*6) Data for South America includes: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela. (*7) Data for Colombia (2010), Costa Rica (2010), Nicaragua (2009), Ecuador (2008/09/10), Paraguay (2008/09/10), and Peru (2010) were obtained through the Inter‐American Development Bank's CISALVA Regional Indicators Project.
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