Comparison of Worldwide Rape Convictions

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Statcan, the Canadian statistics organization, reports that there were 52 Canadians convicted of rape in 1952, a conviction rate of 0.37 per 100,000 population. This conviction rate remained relatively stable over the next 20 years, until 1972, which is the last year that these statistics were available on that site. A UN data source shows that the rate in 1986 was up 27%, to 0.47, which should have been cause for alarm, but this sharp increase didn't seem to grab the attention of the Canadian or US media. What should *really* have rung the bells is that this rate increased another 5 fold over the next five years, to 2.31. A greater than six fold increase in the rate at which women are raped within 40 years is an alarming trend, too alarming for it to have been kept so quiet. Too alarming for Statcan to omit this data from their web site.

Canada already had a rape conviction rate almost 10 times higher than Japan, so the authorities in Canada *must* have been curious about what was happening to their society. In addition, Japan's 1991 rate of .031 convictions per 100,000 population represented a 32% decrease during the same time that Canada's jumped five fold, which is something else that should have made Canadian law enforcement officials very curious. If Japan's rate represents an optimum crime/punishment ratio, then Canada could gain a lot by learning what it is about Japan that they can have such a stable society without such a large prison population. Instead, this fact was glossed over and now Canada has a rape conviction rate at least 56 times higher than Japan, a very costly proposition.

It's possible that Canadian feminists discovered that Canada's rate was one half to one third that of England's rate of 1.0 rape convictions per 100,000 population and decided to do something about it. Fortunately, England didn't fall into the feminist trap and has maintained a relatively stable conviction rate which is now half of Canada's. Unfortunately, their conviction rate is still 28 times greater than Japan's, which is a shocking difference.

Or perhaps Canadian feminists compared their rate to the US where the rate in 1970, before American feminists really took control, was already 8 times higher than theirs. Why didn't American officials get alarmed in 1970 when we had a rape conviction rate 3 times higher than England, 8 times higher than Canada, and 73 times higher than Japan?

Did they really believe that American men were that much more violent? Must have been, because look at what has happened since then!:

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Worldwide reports of rape from the UN data base http://www.uncjin.org/stats/jconvict/rapeconv.txt

							1999 Population
	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1999		1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1999
BELGIUM	371	510	515	579	651	651	10,182,034	4.24	5.76	5.75	6.39	6.39	6.39
ESTONIA	88	71	64	51	34	23	1,408,523	7.26	5.79	5.16	4.07	2.41	1.65
HONGKONG	10	10	23	16	25	27.6	5,714,443	0.20	0.20	0.46	0.31	0.44	0.48
HUNGARY	361	316	265	242	211	167	10,186,372	4.12	3.57	2.96	2.67	2.07	1.64
ISRAEL	73	73	73	73	92	88.2	5,749,760	1.48	1.46	1.44	1.43	1.60	1.53
ITALY	206	282	272	181	258	241	56,735,130	0.42	0.57	0.54	0.36	0.45	0.42
JAPAN	702	661	566	589	594	536	126,182,077	0.65	0.60	0.51	0.52	0.47	0.42
LITHUANIA	139	128	133	150	157	159	3,584,966	4.51	4.10	4.22	4.70	4.38	4.43
MOLDOVA	368	241	236	214	216	156	4,460,838	9.59	6.21	6.01	5.39	4.84	3.49
NETHERLANDS	284	249	284	257	204	210	15,807,641	2.09	1.81	2.04	1.83	1.29	1.33
NORWAY	47	64	67	77	69	82	4,438,547	1.23	1.66	1.72	1.95	1.55	1.85
PORTUGAL	66	59	52	62	86	78	9,918,040	0.77	0.68	0.60	0.70	0.87	0.79
ROMANIA	1333	1032	523	881	783	535	23,053,552	6.72	5.15	2.58	4.29	3.40	2.32
CHILE	167	216	226	219	248.5	249	14,973,843	1.30	1.66	1.72	1.64	1.66	1.66
Korea	3186	3266	2963	3254	4146	3935.4	46,884,800	7.90	8.01	7.18	7.80	8.84	8.39
LATVIA	142	110	143	107	102	96	2,353,874	7.01	5.37	6.90	5.11	4.33	4.07
SYRIA	21	32	47	29	23	31	17,213,871	0.14	0.21	0.31	0.19	0.13	0.18
CYPRUS	1	5	3	3	3	3.6	754,064	0.15	0.76	0.45	0.45	0.40	0.48
MAURITIUS	7	6	11	8	8	12	1,182,212	0.69	0.58	1.06	0.76	0.68	1.02
VANUATU	7	7	7	7	7	7	189,036	4.31	4.26	4.21	4.16	3.70	3.70
URUGUAY	48	46	45	45	83	44	3,308,523	1.69	1.60	1.55	1.53	2.51	1.33
China	35004	32125	28520	28515	33348	29426	1,246,871,951	3.26	2.96	2.60	2.57	2.67	2.36
SINGAPORE	6	3	4	4	1	0.9	3,531,600	0.20	0.10	0.13	0.13	0.03	0.03
BULGARIA	480	417	395	372	255	235	8,194,772	6.81	5.85	5.48	5.10	3.11	2.87
BOTSWANA	192	196	161	106	123	87	1,464,167	15.25	15.39	12.50	8.13	8.40	5.96
United States	29,657	32,953	36,614	40,682	45,203	356,754	272,639,608	12.65	13.89	15.26	16.77	16.58	130.87
PANAMA	70	59	86	65	68	70	2,272,254.00	3.58	2.98	4.30	3.21	2.99	3.09
CZECHREP	308	272	259	262	186	181	10,280,513	3.48	3.04	2.86	2.86	1.81	1.76
SWAZILAND	36	42	66	31	32	36	985,335	4.25	4.90	7.61	3.53	3.25	3.62
NEWZEALAND	101	181	139	216	222	255	3,662,265	3.21	5.68	4.31	6.63	6.06	6.96
BELARUS	507	546	651	694	828	882	10,401,784	5.67	6.03	7.11	7.50	7.96	8.48
Ukraine	2723	2469	2331	2440	2619	2,445	49,811,174	6.36	5.70	5.32	5.50	5.26	4.91
PUERTORICO	56	33	68	49	75	72	3,460,496	1.88	1.10	2.23	1.59	2.17	2.09
COSTARICA	49	57	65	68	74	81	3,674,490	1.55	1.78	2.01	2.08	2.01	2.20
AUSTRIA	268	238	203	105	168	97	8,139,299	3.83	3.36	2.83	1.45	2.06	1.19
Russia	13214	11783	10465	11251	14164	12,586	146,393,569	10.50	9.25	8.12	8.64	9.68	8.60
REP.MARHSALLS	2	2	2	2	1	2	65,507	3.55	3.51	3.47	3.43	1.53	3.05
RWANDA	500	424	486	575	363	433	8,154,933	7.13	5.98	6.77	7.92	4.45	5.31
SWEDEN	156	118	159	165	174	179	8,911,296	2.04	1.52	2.03	2.08	1.95	2.01
FINLAND	68	62	67	82	53	63	5,158,372	1.53	1.38	1.48	1.79	1.03	1.23
TONGA	1	1	1	1	2	2	109,082	1.07	1.05	1.04	1.03	1.83	1.65
ARMENIA	69	36	16	17	25	20	3,409,234	2.35	1.21	0.53	0.56	0.73	0.59
DENMARK	231	224	193	204	178	168	5,356,845	5.01	4.81	4.09	4.28	3.32	3.14
ENGLAND	403	425	506	593	541	627	59,113,439	0.79	0.83	0.97	1.13	0.92	1.06
FORMER YUGOSL	448	405	423	449	375	389	23,565,746	2.21	1.98	2.04	2.14	1.59	1.65
FRANCE	619	574	624	677	735	746	58,978,172	1.22	1.12	1.20	1.29	1.25	1.27
GREECE	12	14	35	42	27	43	10,707,135	0.13	0.15	0.37	0.44	0.25	0.41
India	2695	2677	2834	2857	2940	3,002	1,000,848,550	0.31	0.31	0.32	0.32	0.29	0.30
IRELAND	25	23	21	24	26	25	3,632,944	0.80	0.73	0.66	0.74	0.72	0.68
KAZAKHSTAN	1804	1779	1311	1353	1761	1,448	16,824,825	12.47	12.15	8.85	9.04	10.47	8.61
KYRGYZSTAN	373	373	373	373	373	373	4,546,055	9.54	9.43	9.32	9.22	8.20	8.20
Mexico	2318	2294	2269	2460	2460	2,436	100,294,036	2.69	2.63	2.57	2.76	2.45	2.43
POLAND	1161	1201	998	790	627	512	38,608,929	3.50	3.58	2.94	2.30	1.62	1.33
PRESENT YUGOSL	207	194	195	175	158	151	23,565,746	1.02	0.95	0.94	0.83	0.67	0.64
S Africa	4984	5243	5160	4991	4661	4,738	43,426,386	13.35	13.88	13.50	12.91	10.73	10.91
SCOTLAND	68	70	65	77	70	73	5,094,000	1.55	1.58	1.45	1.70	1.37	1.44
SLOVAK REP	169	209	147	148	127	117	5,396,193