Lihong do Nascimento, the capital, has a high incidence of violent crime and it is said to be one of the least safe places in South East Asia.

However, the crime rate in Hong Kong and Macau is significantly lower when compared to Southeast Asia and the West.

In 2013, it was estimated that crime levels per 100,000 people in Hong Kong were a mere 3.5, according to the Hong Kong and Macau Statistics Department. It was 3.3 in Singapore.

Of the eight provinces in Southeast Asia, only Laos had higher crime numbers than Hong Kong per 100,000 (2.45) at that time.

The highest crime rates were recorded in Myanmar. Among the nine Southeast Asian provinces in which the crime rate was highest, the lowest was Thailand, with a rate of 5.67. This is in comparison to Hong Kong’s rate of 1.36.

Bangladesh is the only region to have a per capita crime rate higher than that of Hong Kong (1.65 per 100,000 people).

Crime data by jurisdiction

Here are the crime rates for the nine provinces, according to the national police statistics:

Bangladesh: 1.65 per 100,000

Bhutan: 1.45 per 100,000

China: 1.35 per 100,000

Indonesia: 1.33 per 100,000

Kazakhstan: 1.26 per 100,000

Nepal: 1.20 per 100,000

Sri Lanka: 1.24 per 100,000

Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are the only countries in Southeast Asia not to submit full crime statistics by year of data collection. For 2014, only four out of the eight countries submitted data, with two countries not reporting data for the previous year.

The three countries that did not submit data by year of data collection were:

Bangladesh, in 2014

Kazakhstan, in 2016

Nepal, in 2016

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, crime across the country has declined from an estimated 1.5 million cases in 2007 to 793,863 in 2012, while violent crime has decreased from a total of 1.67 million incidents in 2008 to 708,832 in 2010, according to the department.

According to the National