Organized Crime: Which countries have the highest levels in West Africa?

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Organized Crime: Which countries have the highest levels in West Africa?

(Togo First) - The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime released last week its Global Organized Crime Index. This study, developed over two years, evaluates levels of crime and resilience in all 193 UN member states.

The index evaluates countries according to their criminality on a score of 1 to 10, lowest to highest organized crime levels, based on their criminal markets score and criminal actors score, and their resilience to organized crime.

Togo                          

Twenty-fourth (24th) in Africa and 4th in the WAEMU, Togo has a score of 5.33. It comes just before  Benin (26th in Africa with 5.25), Guinea (27th in Africa with 5.2), and Senegal (34th in Africa, with a score of 4.81, the lowest in WAEMU). 

Across the Union, Côte d’Ivoire had the highest score (6.15), and was ranked 11th in Africa and 36th worldwide. Next comes Niger (6.01), Mali (16th in Africa with a score of 5.89), and Burkina Faso (21st in Africa with a score of 5.49).

Togo’score is below West Africa’s average of 5.47.

Nigeria, number one in West Africa

In West Africa and the ECOWAS, Nigeria has the highest score, 7.15. It is right behind DRC which has the highest score in Africa (7.75). The least impacted African country is Sao Tomé & Principe, with a score of 1.78 over 10.

East Africa is the part of the continent where organized crime is most prevalent (5.66). It is followed by West Africa (5.47), Central Africa (5.11), North Africa (4.8), and Southern Africa (4.67).

Ayi Renaud Dossavi

2021 Ranking of West African Countries with Highest Levels of Organized Crime

World

Africa

West Africa

Country

Score

5.

2

1

NIGERIA

7.15

36.

11

2

CÔTE D'IVOIRE

6.15

41.

14

3

GHANA

6.01

41.

15

4

NIGER

6.01

49.

16

5

MALI

5.89

67.

21

6

BURKINA FASO

5.49

68.

22

7

GUINEA BISSAU

5.45

71.

23

8

SIERRA LEONE

5.4

72.

24

9

TOGO

5.33

76.

26

10

BENIN

5.25

78.

27

11

GUINEA

5.2

100.

33

12

GAMBIA

4.83

102.

34

13

SENEGAL

4.81

119

40 

14

MAURITANIA 

4.38

141.

44

15

CABO VERDE

4.04

 

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