These are the 11 richest countries with the biggest organised crime problems

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Organised crime prisoners

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Inmates stand in a gymnasium where they are housed due to overcrowding at the California Institution for Men state prison in Chino, California, June 3, 2011.

The World Economic Forum recently published its annual Global Competitiveness Report, which brings together dozens of measures of economic and institutional health.

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One of the sub-categories used by the WEF is the prevalence of organised crime - listed under the "security" index. Extortion, racketeering, theft, violence and property damage are all factors that could hold back a country's development.

To make the comparisons more reasonable, we only took countries from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). There are 34 nations, all democracies with mixed or market economies. The group is often though of as a rich countries' club.

We thinned the list down to any OECD countries that fell outside of the top 50 places in the WEF's ranks. The lower the WEF ranking given, the worse the country is for organised crime.

Take a look:

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