Boofhead, very interested in your comment that UK and Aus are now have the largest crime rate in the industrail world so did a bit of digging.
You might want to take a look at
<a href="http://www.un.org/cgi-bin/pubs/infonatn/dquery.pl?rtype2=on&lang=e&unk=on&usa=on&areak=on&poptt=on&p opdn=on&crime=on&%20SUBMIT=View+Info" target="_blank">link</a>
But if you dont want the trouble, result ares:
Country UK Aus USA
Area 242900 7741220 9363520
Total Pop ('000) 58744 18705 276219
Pop Density 240 2 29
Homicides Per 100k 1 2 9
Hmmm, seems by the end of'99 the US were winning not Aus of UK.....
[ 09 January 2002: Message edited by: Sick Squid ]</p>