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3. Other Crimes
3.5.1.x. Burglary (rate)
RATE of Burglary, at the national level.
“BURGLARY” means “gaining unauthorized access to a part of a building/dwelling or other premises with or without the use of force against the building/dwelling, with intent to commit theft or when actually committing theft”.
INCLUSIONS: Breaking and entering, unlawful entry with intent to commit theft, or access by deception with intent to commit theft, of: business premises (office buildings, shops, clubs, banks factories, hotels etc); residential premises (house, appartment or other dwelling place that is the habitual place of residence of the victim); or public premises owned, rented or leased by public bodies,
EXCLUSIONS:Theft (0502); possession of stolen goods or money; receiving, handling, disposing, selling or trafficking stolen goods; using stolen parts for producing other goods; concealment of stolen goods (0704); property damage (0504); Robbery (0401).
"Burglary" should also exclude theft from a car, container, vending machine, parking meter and from a fenced meadow/compound.

[Sources: International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, p.57. Web: https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf;
United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).
For population data: 2019 Revision of World Population Prospects. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Web: https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/]


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Countries
 
    
Antigua and Barbuda202278.50 
Argentina------ 
Bahamas202224.62 
Barbados2022248.23 
Belize2022138.46 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil202017.08 
Canada2022342.33 
Chile2022462.31 
Colombia202269.07 
Costa Rica2022791.07 
Dominica2022617.91 
Dominican Republic2020131.44 
Ecuador2022315.54 
El Salvador202236.78 
Grenada2022499.15 
Guatemala2022202.16 
Guyana202213.50 
Haiti------ 
Honduras202241.10 
Jamaica20226.80 
Mexico202245.57 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama2020115.68 
Paraguay2022474.47 
Peru201613.98 
Saint Kitts and Nevis2022380.85 
Saint Lucia2022375.98 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2022531.37 
Suriname2022467.90 
Trinidad and Tobago2020117.22 
United States2022268.49 
Uruguay------ 
Venezuela------ 
Regions
 
    
01. Americas20120.00 
02. Caribbean20200.00 
03. Central America2020114.23 
04. North America20200.00 
05. South America20200.00 
* Alertamerica adopts the use of commas to indicate figures un the thousands (1,000) while points signal decimals (10.5).