Around 600,000 prisoners in the EU27
- In 2006, about three million foreign immigrants settled in a country in the EU27
- GDP per inhabitant varied from 40% to 253% across the EU27
- EU27 Member States granted citizenship to 735 000 persons in 2006
- EU GDP per inhabitant varies from 38% to 276%
- Malta’s purchasing power standard 24% less than EU average
- Malta’s purchasing power is 77% of EU average
- Malta has most asylum seekers per inhabitant in EU
- Malta most expensive country in EU for consumer electronics
- Half a billion inhabitants in the EU27 by January 1st, 329 million in the euro area
- Malta one of the worst countries in Europe for waste generation and recycling
- Malta produced 600 to 700kg of waste per person in 2008
- Nearly 40% of all EU27 trips of four nights or more were made abroad in 2006
- From A for Abruzzo to Z for Zuid-Holland – Eurostat Yearbook 2009
- 17% of EU27 population at risk of poverty
- Maltese youth lowest in EU on making cultural visits
Between 2005 and 2007, there were on average 607,000 people in prison in the EU27, equivalent to about 123 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants.
The political and social sensitivity of issues of crime and criminal justice, together with growing public concern, has made it increasingly important to obtain a view of the situation in the EU. Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in partnership with the statistical authorities of the Member States and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security, is developing a more comparable system of crime and criminal justice statistics. However, measuring tendencies in crime in the EU remains a difficult task, due to the differences in the data collection sources.
Highest prisoner rates in the Baltic countries, Poland and the Czech Republic
The highest average prisoner rates over the period 2005 to 2007 were recorded in Estonia (302 prisoners per 100 000 inhabitants), Latvia (293), Lithuania (232), Poland (228) and the Czech Republic (185). The lowest rates were registered in Slovenia (60), Finland (68), Denmark (71), Ireland (75 in 2004-2006) and Sweden (77), Malta stood at 87. This compares with a rate of 758 prisoners per 100 000 inhabitants in the USA over the same period.
These figures for the number of prisoners have been taken from a recent report from Eurostat, since they are among the most comparable crime indicators between Member States.
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