We know that in regions with high welfare levels, theft, murder and crime in general are less common. However, when we look at a graph that was created recently in the light of data from different countries, this situation is a little different. Let’s even say: The painting is such that you would not be wrong when you say “Europe is jealous of us” on this issue.
Landgeist, who put the data from the countries on a map and shared the statistics on his site, shared the robbery rates in European countries. Turkey took the last place in the list led by Spain and Belgium.
Turkey placed eighth from the last
Landgeist has published a map chart showing how many of every 100,000 citizens in Europe are robbed per year. The crime mentioned in the graphic is not any kind of theft; It was emphasized that there were cases of theft using physical force, force of arms and threats. Data from Estonia, North Macedonia and the United Kingdom are from 2017, while data from all other countries are from 2019.
Belgium and Spain were at the top of the list, with a rate of 140 robberies per 100,000 people. While the third name was England with 132 robberies, it was noteworthy that a country with a high level of prosperity and calm like Sweden ranked fourth with 88 robberies. If we come to Turkey, which is in the eighth place from the end, this number was limited to 13 robberies per 100 thousand people.
Liechtenstein, located between Austria and Switzerland, was the second from the last, while Albania’s number of 3 robberies per 100 thousand people a year put the country in the last place. The Republic of Cyprus and Hungary took the third place from the last with 6 robberies. So what was the reason for these robbery numbers to be in a mixed order and irrelevant to the welfare levels of the countries?
That’s left to the social scientists, but to guess briefly, in densely populated areas, people may be afraid of robbery or crime in general. Because it is more difficult for a potential criminal to extort someone when there are 100 people around instead of 10 people. Or, those who cannot adapt to the quiet life of their country may find ‘peace’ with such activities. What are you thinking?
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