New Zealand is the top country by kidnapping rate in the world. As of 2018, kidnapping rate in New Zealand was 9.5 cases per 100,000 population. The top 5 countries also includes Pakistan, Luxembourg, Germany, and Ecuador.
The description is composed by our digital data assistant.“Kidnapping” means unlawfully detaining a person or persons against their will (including through the use of force; threat; fraud or enticement) for the purpose of demanding for their liberation an illicit gain or any other economic gain or other material benefit; or in order to oblige someone to do or not to do something. “Kidnapping” excludes disputes over child custody. (UN-CTS M5.5)
| 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
| Burundi | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.8 | |||||
| Rwanda | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||||
| Mauritius | 2.8 | 4.0 | ||||||||
| Zimbabwe | 0.4 | |||||||||
| Algeria | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.3 | |||
| Uganda | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 2.4 | ||||
| Botswana | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Egypt | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Guinea | 0.2 | |||||||||
| Morocco | 1.0 | 1.7 | 2.9 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 2.3 | |||
| Cabo Verde | 1.2 | 1.4 | 4.4 | 5.5 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 4.3 | 1.1 | 2.6 | |
| Dominican Republic | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||
| Canada | 12.1 | 12.6 | 10.9 | 10.4 | 9.2 | 9.2 | 10.0 | 10.4 | 10.3 | |
| Barbados | 8.3 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 4.9 | 3.8 | 3.5 | |
| Jamaica | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | ||
| Trinidad and Tobago | 4.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |||
| Belize | 3.2 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 6.7 | 1.3 | ||||
| Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.7 |
| Honduras | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | ||
| Mexico | 0.3 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.5 |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 1.8 | 1.8 | 4.6 | 3.7 | 8.2 | |||||
| Guatemala | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 2.8 | 2.5 | |||
| Guyana | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||
| Ecuador | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 7.2 | 5.9 | 4.7 | 4.4 |
| Uruguay | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.7 | ||||
| Tajikistan | 1.9 | 2.2 | ||||||||
| El Salvador | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
| Philippines | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||
| Colombia | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
| Republic of Korea | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
| Panama | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.4 |
| Macao Special Administrative Region of China | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Nepal | 0.5 | 0.1 | ||||||||
| Thailand | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 0.0 | |
| Kyrgyzstan | 0.5 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.3 |
| India | 2.0 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 5.1 | |||||
| Bangladesh | 0.9 | |||||||||
| Azerbaijan | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
| Chile | 0.9 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| Georgia | 2.1 | 0.1 | ||||||||
| Indonesia | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
| Mongolia | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Jordan | 0.5 | |||||||||
| State of Palestine | 5.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | ||||||
| United Arab Emirates | 18.8 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.8 | ||
| Peru | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.4 |
| Sri Lanka | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.2 | |
| Hungary | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Kazakhstan | 0.6 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | ||
| Bulgaria | 2.5 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 0.9 |
| Kuwait | 12.3 | |||||||||
| Bhutan | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Cyprus | 1.6 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 |
| Slovakia | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 1.7 |
| Japan | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||
| Lebanon | 11.3 | 12.6 | 16.4 | 20.5 | 16.9 | 15.4 | 177.7 | |||
| Bahrain | 1.4 | |||||||||
| Turkey | 12.9 | 18.8 | 18.5 | 18.0 | 41.1 | 42.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | ||
| Finland | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Romania | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| Brunei Darussalam | 0.0 | |||||||||
| Belarus | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Syrian Arab Republic | 0.2 | |||||||||
| Ukraine | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.3 | |||||||
| Republic of Moldova | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 2.2 | ||||
| Latvia | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| Ireland | 1.8 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 1.6 | |
| Greece | 0.2 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
| Poland | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | |||
| Serbia | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Andorra | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 0.0 | ||||
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Italy | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Spain | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Slovenia | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Belgium | 8.7 | 10.3 | 10.8 | 10.7 | 10.4 | 10.3 | 10.4 | 10.6 | 10.2 | |
| Albania | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
| Monaco | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 2.6 | ||||||
| Australia | 2.8 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 1.8 | |
| North Macedonia | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |
| Austria | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Montenegro | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Luxembourg | 5.3 | 9.1 | 10.7 | 8.8 | 9.4 | 9.4 | 8.6 | 7.8 | 6.0 | |
| France | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 4.6 | 5.9 | 5.9 | ||
| Netherlands | 5.6 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 2.5 |
| New Zealand | 7.0 | 5.2 | 6.3 | 5.3 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 7.3 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 9.5 |
| Nigeria | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Bahamas | 7.4 | 5.1 | 7.2 | 7.7 | 3.8 | 5.3 | 4.5 | 2.9 | 2.3 | |
| St. Kitts and Nevis | 4.1 | 6.1 | ||||||||
| Costa Rica | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
| Nicaragua | 0.2 | 0.1 | ||||||||
| Brazil | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
| Paraguay | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Singapore | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||||
| Maldives | 7.1 | 5.0 | 4.3 | 1.9 | 10.6 | 6.8 | 9.9 | 6.8 | ||
| Armenia | 0.7 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 1.9 |
| Israel | 6.4 | 3.6 | 3.5 | |||||||
| Oman | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |||||
| Yemen | 0.5 | |||||||||
| Czechia | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Russian Federation | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Estonia | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Lithuania | 2.1 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Croatia | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Portugal | 4.2 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 2.7 |
| Germany | 2.1 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 6.4 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 5.6 | 5.5 |
| Switzerland | 3.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Cameroon | 2.3 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 4.0 | 1.9 | 4.2 | 2.4 | 3.5 | ||
| Myanmar | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
| Senegal | 0.0 | |||||||||
| Iraq (Central Iraq) | 5.3 | 3.8 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 3.7 | |||||
| Madagascar | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||
| Sao Tome and Principe | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| Grenada | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||
| Malta | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Liechtenstein | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||
| Puerto Rico | 1.4 | 0.9 | ||||||||
| United Republic of Tanzania | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Timor-Leste | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Pakistan | 10.4 | 10.9 | 11.0 | 10.2 | 9.8 | 9.1 | 8.9 | 8.8 | 9.5 | |
| Saudi Arabia | 1.8 | |||||||||
| South Africa | 8.6 | 9.1 | 8.9 | 9.6 | ||||||
| Benin | 4.7 | |||||||||
| Guinea-Bissau | 1.5 | 3.6 | 0.4 | 0.7 | ||||||
| Uzbekistan | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||
| Antigua and Barbuda | 4.3 | 2.1 | 14.7 | 2.1 | ||||||
| Dominica | 4.2 | 2.8 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 1.4 | |||||
| Haiti | 0.4 | |||||||||
| Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.7 |