11 rich countries with the biggest organized-crime problems

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has published its annual Global Competitiveness Report, which compiles dozens of measures of economic and institutional health.

One of the subcategories used by the WEF is the prevalence of organized 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 Organization of Economic Cooperation 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 looked at the 11 worst OECD countries for organized crime. The lower the WEF ranking given, the worse the country is for organized crime. Some major economies, such as Russia, are not currently members of the OECD.

Here is the list.