Crime in Liberia

According to the country's official criminal justice statistics, Liberia had a murder rate of 3.23 per 100,000 population in 2012.

[1] Because of a lack of reliable, long-term official data, the WHO used a regression model to compute an estimated homicide rate for 2012 of 11.2 per 100,000, with a 95% confidence interval between 2.6 and 48.8.

[2] In Liberia's education system, patronage and bribery by administrators, professors, and students are widely reported.

[3][4] In 2013, Human Rights Watch released a report specifically about police corruption in Liberia.

[5] Liberia is a source, transit, and destination country for children trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation.