What percentage of the world's population are criminals?

Answer 1

It's impossible to tell, are we talking about what percentage of the world has been arrested and charged? Or are we also talking about what percentage of the world has broken the law and got away with it? Everybody has broken some law in their life whether it was speeding, littering, jay walking, spitting in public, breaking curfew ETC.

If you look at wall street that's a place where everyone is true criminals who break serious laws

Answer 2

It is difficult to determine the exact percentage of the world's population that are criminals as it varies by region and depends on how criminal activity is defined. However, the global average crime rate is around 45 crimes per 1,000 people.

Answer 3

Difficult question to answer, but let's work it out together.

We know that about 25% of the incarcerated people of the world are locked up in the US, and that total hovers around 2.5 million currently. Two and a half million times four is 10 million. Roughly 20% of those locked up in the US are released from prison or discharged every year (the total incarcerated however fluctuates little), so about 2 million a year worldwide get out.

Stick with me.

Only about 20% of those convicted receive incarceration sentences.

So, begin arbitrarily with the year 2001 and a base of 10 million. Multiplied by five, you get 50 million. Add 10 million (to account for those released), you're at 60 million. Now, add 60 million to your base for each year of estimated lifespan, call it 50. So, by 2050, all things remaining constant, you'll have an estimated 3 billion FORMALLY convicted persons.

Here's where it gets challenging. Factor into that the hundreds, perhaps hundreds of thousands of war criminals, the unconvicted, politicians, business owners who commit fraud and cheat, LEO's who shoot unarmed children, terrorists, petty thieves, jaywalkers, sidewalk spitters, public urinators, litterers, and every other illegal doer in the world, and it would be easier to count the noncriminals of the world's 7 billion people.