Historical dataset showing South Sudan crime rate per 100K population by year from 2012 to 2012.

In 2023, the Democratic Republic of the Congo had Africa's highest organized crime index in Africa, scoring 7.35 points. Nigeria ranked second with a total of 7.28 points. To follow, other African countries with significant criminality levels were South Africa, Kenya, Libya, and the Central African Republic. Main criminal markets in Africa Human trafficking is the main type of crime perpetrated in Africa. In 2022, over 21,700 human trafficking victims were identified in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most victims of trafficking in persons on the continent are girls and women, who are predominantly victims of forced labor and sexual exploitation. Other common forms of criminality in Africa are financial crimes, as well as arms trafficking, which include the illegal trade of unauthorized small arms, ammunition, and explosives. Terrorism across Africa In recent years, terrorism has spread at particularly high levels in some African countries. Nigeria, headquarter of the Boko Haram terrorist group, has been facing high levels of crime, violence, and poor national security, and ranked among the highest 10 countries in the global terrorism index in 2022. However, Nigeria and Niger have seen improvements between 2020 and 2022, with the hot spot area in the region moving more towards the border area between Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. Furthermore, terrorism tends to have adverse effects on the economy. For example, the economic impact of terrorist acts between 2007 and 2019 in Nigeria amounted to around 142 billion U.S. dollars.

In 2020, South Sudan was the African country with the highest business bribery risk in Africa, scoring ** points. Worldwide, it ranked *** after North Korea and Turkmenistan. The TRACE Bribery Risk Matrix measures the levels of business bribery risk by evaluating businesses' interactions with government, anti-bribery enforcement, government transparency, and civil society's oversight capacity. The index ranges from zero (low risk) to 100 (high risk). In Africa, South Sudan, followed by Eritrea and Equatorial Guinea, led the ranking as countries with the highest levels of commercial bribery risk.

Between 1990 and 2020, *** death sentences of people below the age of ** at the time of the crime were documented worldwide. The countries who applied death penalty to minors during these years were China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Sudan, the United States, and Yemen. The majority of them took place in Iran, with *** cases. In total, there were death sentences in ** countries in 2020. China executed by far the largest number of people, with over ************ cases.