75.17
per 100,000 people, 2021
Moderate trust, 68 of 100 Only one source (UNODC), so it cannot be checked against another.
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| Year | UNODC Data Portal, violent and sexual crime: Sexual violence: Rape |
|---|---|
| 2003 | 73.59 |
| 2004 | 79.11 |
| 2021 | 75.17 |
All countriesAll of Eswatini's figuresCompare
Eswatini among 150 countries
5 have a higher figure and 144 a lower one. Definitions differ between countries, and their years run from 2004 to 2025.
Eswatini 75.17
Lowest: Andorra, 0Highest: United Kingdom (England and Wales), 117.3
What this number counts
- Counts
- Rape offences recorded by the police, per 100,000 people
- Where
- Eswatini
- When
- 2021 (one year, not an average)
Where the number comes from (1 source)
| Source | Figure and year | Definition | Quality | Counts for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
UNODC Data Portal, violent and sexual crime: Sexual violence: RapeUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) · Police and justice recordsRetrieved 2026-10-27 · Data (Excel file) | 75.172021 | Rape offences recorded by the police, per 100,000 population, as reported by governments to the UN crime trends survey (UN-CTS) under the ICCS definition (sexual penetration without valid consent).Countries apply their own legal definitions. 907 offences in 2021. UNODC source code: CTS. Raw file: data_cts_violent_and_sexual_crime.xlsx (UNODC data portal), rows Category "Sexual violence: Rape", Rate per 100,000 population. Metadata: https://data.unodc.org/sites/dataportal.unodc.org/files/2026-07/metadata_violent_and_sexual_crime.pdf | 5 of 5 checks
| 100% |
- UNODC100%
How the trust score was worked out
- Quality40 / 40
How well the sources are made
- Agreement15 / 30
Unknown with one source, so set to half
- Independence6 / 20
How many separate ways the number was measured
- Freshness7 / 10
How recent the newest data is
Who reports it, and since when
No source of these kinds: victim survey.
- Single source: nothing to check it against
- UNODC: no figure here for 16 years between 2003 and 2021
'03'05'10'15'20'21UNODC
figure no figure here, inside its range no later figure recorded change
Why the numbers differ
- Each country counts the acts its own law calls rape. Eurostat and UNODC ask for the ICCS definition (sexual penetration without valid consent), but national figures follow national law, and Eurostat's country notes list where they depart from it (for example Czechia, Belgium and Bulgaria). (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- Consent-based laws came into force in different years: Germany in 2016, Sweden on 1 July 2018, Denmark on 1 January 2021, Spain on 7 October 2022 and Finland on 1 January 2023. Brå 2020:13 (p. 26) gives the German and Swedish years; the law texts for the others are linked as definition changes on each country's row. A rise after such a change can reflect the wider definition. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- Sweden records every act as a separate offence when it is reported, before any investigation, and counts sex with a child under 15 as rape: in 2013-2017 Sweden's reported rapes averaged 31% more than complainants. Recounted with Germany's legal definition and counting rules, Brå found the 2013-2017 average would fall from 63 to 15 per 100,000 (Brå 2020:13, pp. 41 and 46). Eurostat's 2016 figures were 64.06 for Sweden and 9.64 for Germany. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- Some countries leave sexual offences against children out of their rape figure. In the period Brå studied, 10 countries did so in the data they sent to Eurostat: Scotland, Finland, Ireland, Germany, Czechia, Hungary, Portugal, Slovenia, Poland, Greece (Brå 2020:13, p. 31). Norway has counted all intercourse with a child under 14 as rape since its 2015 penal code. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- Germany records a rape only once the police investigation is finished, while Sweden records it when it is reported (Brå 2020:13, p. 26, note 9). (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- Reporting rates differ. In the EU survey, the share of women who had experienced physical or sexual violence and reported it to the police ranges from 5.9% in Hungary to 31.5% in Malta (EU estimate 13.9%); the table does not separate sexual violence. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- Police counts are offences recorded in one year, relative to the whole population of all ages and sexes; the survey counts women who say they have ever been raped. They measure different things, so neither can be converted into the other.
- UNODC and Eurostat publish the same national submissions for European countries; their rates differ slightly because each divides by its own population estimate.
Common mistakes
- Ranking countries by police-recorded rape as if it showed how many rapes happen. Brå warns against using Eurostat's reported-crime statistics as a measure of actual crime levels (Brå 2020:13, p. 80). (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- Reading a jump in one country's series as a jump in rapes without checking the definition changes on its row. Brå links part of Sweden's rise to the 2016 and 2018 law changes. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- Comparing the survey share with the police rate as two answers to one question. One is a lifetime share of women, the other a yearly count of offences per 100,000 people.
- Treating suspects as offenders. A suspect is someone the police recorded as suspected; some are never charged and some are acquitted. The male share describes recorded suspects, not any individual.
- Reading anything here as being about suspects' citizenship or origin. Neither UNODC nor Eurostat publishes rape suspects by citizenship, so this page has no such breakdown.
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Cite as: RealStats, “Rapes recorded by police per 100,000 people in Eswatini”, updated 2026-10-27, with the original sources listed on the page.