The 15 countries with the worst organised crime problems in the world
Oscar Williams-Grut, Business Insider UK
The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently published its annual Global Competitiveness Report, which looks at dozens of measures of economic and institutional health to compile a ranking of countries.
One of the subcategories used by the WEF is the prevalence of organised crime — listed under the "security" index. Extortion, racketeering, theft, violence, and property damage are all factors that could hold back a country's development.
We took a look at the worst performers on the list. The majority of countries with the worst gang problems are in south and central America but there is one European country that makes the list.
Each country is given a score from 1 to 7 indicating how bad the problem is. 1 indicates that it's a big problem that imposes huge costs; 7 means no problem at all.
Continued at: http://www.businessinsider.com/wef-countries-worst-organised-crime-problems-gangs-mafia-2017-11
See the 15 worse countries at link, Italy is the only European country in the top 15 but a few others are not that far off, Bulgaria, Ukraine, like I've said, Eastern Europe has a bit of this going on.
Here are the actual rankings from the WEF, World Economic Forum:
http://reports.weforum.org/global-competitiveness-index-2017-2018/competitiveness-rankings/#series=EOSQ035And we the USA are at 57, could be better.
http://reports.weforum.org/global-competitiveness-index-2017-2018/competitiveness-rankings/#series=EOSQ035
