Kyrgyzstan takes 36th place in Crime Index 2022

Kyrgyzstan is in the top 50 most criminal countries of the world. The crime rate index was published by Numbeo.

According to it, Kyrgyzstan takes the 36^th place with an index of 55.88. Belarus takes the 32^nd place with the index of 57.18.

The crime situation is slightly better in Kazakhstan. The country takes the 47^th line out of 142 in the ranking of countries by crime rate for the first half of 2022 with the index of 53.04.

Russia and Armenia, which are also members of the EAEU, have a low crime rate. The Russian Federation takes the 94^th place with the index of 39.32, and Armenia — 136^th with the index of 27.75.

Uzbekistan also has a low crime rate: 104^th place and index of 33.68.

The crime rate in the countries is calculated based on the assessment of the crime index, while the index from 0 to 19.99 means very low, from 20 to 39.99 — low, from 40 to 59.99 — moderate, from 60 to 79.99 — high, from 80 and above — very high crime rate.

Venezuela and Papua New Guinea with indices of 83.16 and 80.26, respectively, take the top 2 places in the ranking with a very high level of crime.

They are followed by Afghanistan (3^rd place with the index of 78.19), South Africa (4^th place with the index of 75.37) and Honduras (5^th place and the index of 74.66).

The lowest crime rates are in Qatar (142^nd place with the index of 14.15), the UAE (141^st place and the index of 14.87) and Taiwan (140^th place with the index of 16.15).