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Originally Posted by MageB420666
U.S. population = 295,777,738
German population = 82,424,609
(According to the U.S. Census website, information last updated in September of 2004)
Maybe this will help explain the disparity of crime rates. Just to help explain where I'm coming from, here is a scenario: Let's say that the percent of the population in both the U.S. and Germany that will commit a violent crime is the same, let's say it's 0.005%. That means that in the U.S. 1.5 million people will commit a violent crime in their lifetime, in Germany the number is just over 412,000. These stats have been made up, but it explains my theory.
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Ummm....crime rates are expressed generally on a per capita basis. In other words, with many crime rates, you'll see it's ".04" or something like that, which means for every 100,000 people in the country, .04 will have that whatever happen to them.