How many rapes are reported to police in each country, and who are the suspects?
Among the 92 countries and UK jurisdictions of 1 million people or more with a police figure from 2020 or later, recorded rapes range from 0.02 per 100,000 people in Lebanon (2023) to 117.30 in United Kingdom (England and Wales) (2022), but countries define and count rape differently; in the EU survey, the share of women aged 18-74 who say they have been raped ranges from 1.7% in Serbia to 21.9% in Sweden (EU estimate 9.2%), and in the 8 featured European countries 93.34% (Spain) to 99.70% (Poland) of rape suspects with sex recorded were male.
rapes recorded by police per 100,000 people
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Year varies by country (2004–2025) · grey: no figure
Latest figure for each country
United Kingdom: England and Wales; Scotland and Northern Ireland are listed separately. Each colour is one figure per country: one year, not an average, for the year shown in the ranking and when you point at a country.With "How sure" on, hatching marks countries whose latest figure has a trust score below 60 (Low or Very low).
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Women aged 18-74 who said in the EU survey that they had been raped (EU-GBV, % of women; fieldwork years differ by country)
Each line is the source that counts most for that group.
| Group | Figure | Year | Trust |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | 8.7 | 2021 | 68 Moderate |
| Belgium | 9.4 | 2022 | 60 Moderate |
| Bulgaria | 2.3 | 2022 | 68 Moderate |
| Croatia | 5 | 2023 | 60 Moderate |
| Cyprus | 9.6 | 2024 | 71 Moderate |
| Czechia | 7.1 | 2024 | 71 Moderate |
| Denmark | 15.4 | 2021 | 68 Moderate |
| Estonia | 11.9 | 2022 | 68 Moderate |
| Finland | 15.5 | 2022 | 68 Moderate |
| France | 11.1 | 2021 | 68 Moderate |
| Germany | 9.9 | 2024 | 63 Moderate |
| Greece | 5.9 | 2023 | 60 Moderate |
| Hungary | 13.6 | 2024 | 71 Moderate |
| Ireland | 12.4 | 2024 | 71 Moderate |
| Latvia | 5.9 | 2022 | 68 Moderate |
| Lithuania | 6.9 | 2021 | 68 Moderate |
| Luxembourg | 15.3 | 2023 | 60 Moderate |
| Malta | 7 | 2022 | 68 Moderate |
| Netherlands | 11.5 | 2020 | 57 Low |
| Poland | 3.3 | 2022 | 68 Moderate |
| Portugal | 3.6 | 2022 | 68 Moderate |
| Romania | 11.6 | 2024 | 71 Moderate |
| Serbia | 1.7 | 2021 | 68 Moderate |
| Slovakia | 13.5 | 2023 | 68 Moderate |
| Slovenia | 4.7 | 2020 | 65 Moderate |
| Spain | 7.3 | 2022 | 68 Moderate |
| Sweden | 21.9 | 2023 | 60 Moderate |
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Male share of people suspected of rape by the police (% of suspects with sex recorded), 2023-2024
Each line is the source that counts most for that group.
Sweden
Spain
Denmark
Germany
Finland
France
Poland
Netherlands
| Group | Figure | Year | Trust |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 97.65 | 2024 | 63 Moderate |
| Spain | 93.34 | 2024 | 63 Moderate |
| Denmark | 98.31 | 2024 | 63 Moderate |
| Germany | 98.4 | 2024 | 63 Moderate |
| Finland | 96.79 | 2024 | 63 Moderate |
| France | 97.45 | 2024 | 71 Moderate |
| Poland | 99.7 | 2023 | 68 Moderate |
| Netherlands | 98.44 | 2024 | 71 Moderate |
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| Year | Sweden | Spain | Denmark | Germany | Finland | France | Poland | Netherlands |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 98.82 | – | – | 99.15 | 98.75 | 98.36 | – | 98.11 |
| 2009 | 98.75 | 98.26 | – | 98.96 | 99.41 | 98.19 | 98.42 | 98 |
| 2010 | 99.1 | 98.54 | – | 98.89 | 99.65 | 98.37 | 98.69 | 98.52 |
| 2011 | 98.63 | 99.05 | – | 98.98 | 99.53 | 98.35 | 98.54 | 98.91 |
| 2012 | 98.55 | 98.5 | – | 98.89 | 97.54 | 98.28 | 98.48 | 96.88 |
| 2013 | 98.31 | 97.1 | – | 98.82 | 99.5 | 97.88 | 100 | 98.72 |
| 2014 | 98.75 | 98.94 | – | 98.77 | 99.44 | 98.08 | 99.76 | 98.6 |
| 2015 | 98.63 | 98.54 | 96.99 | 98.76 | 99.63 | 98.37 | 100 | 98.23 |
| 2016 | 98.29 | 99.28 | 98.29 | 98.72 | 99.15 | 98.67 | 99.73 | 98.43 |
| 2017 | 98.6 | 98.68 | 98.8 | 98.83 | 99.15 | 98.32 | 99.5 | 98.37 |
| 2018 | 98.4 | 98.86 | 97.33 | 98.74 | 99.62 | 98.45 | 99.77 | 98.84 |
| 2019 | 98.24 | 99.2 | 98.26 | 98.73 | 98.88 | 98.27 | 99.51 | 98.43 |
| 2020 | 98.05 | 98.77 | 98.32 | 98.73 | 99.21 | 98.04 | 100 | 99.68 |
| 2021 | 97.87 | 98.15 | 98.86 | 98.38 | 97.77 | 98.14 | 99.18 | 98.65 |
| 2022 | 97.93 | 96.16 | 98.02 | 98.46 | 98.89 | 97.93 | 99.15 | 98.73 |
| 2023 | 97.49 | 94.49 | 98.4 | 98.28 | 98.32 | 97.72 | 99.7 | 98.46 |
| 2024 | 97.65 | 93.34 | 98.31 | 98.4 | 96.79 | 97.45 | – | 98.44 |
Male share of the population (% of population, 1 January), 2024
Each line is the source that counts most for that group.
| Group | Figure | Year | Trust |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 50.35 | 2024 | 71 Moderate |
| Spain | 49.01 | 2024 | 71 Moderate |
| Denmark | 49.72 | 2024 | 71 Moderate |
| Germany | 49.32 | 2024 | 71 Moderate |
| Finland | 49.5 | 2024 | 71 Moderate |
| France | 48.51 | 2024 | 71 Moderate |
| Poland | 48.35 | 2024 | 71 Moderate |
| Netherlands | 49.72 | 2024 | 71 Moderate |
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About this data
Every source on this page (7)
Who is behind the sources
- 99% International body
- <1% Police or justice agency
Each publisher, its funding and its own description
- Eurostat · International bodyFunding: EU budget; Eurostat is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The gender-based violence survey was run with the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), also EU-funded. sourceIn its own words: “Our mission is to provide high-quality statistics and data on Europe.” source, retrieved 2026-10-27
- UNODC · International bodyFunding: Mostly voluntary contributions from member states, multilateral organisations and private donors. sourceIn its own words: “The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) advances justice and security around the globe…” source, retrieved 2026-10-27
- Brå (Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention) · Police or justice agencyFunding: Swedish state budget; Brå is a government agency under the Ministry of Justice. sourceIn its own words: “Brå is an authority that works to reduce crime and increase safety in society.” source, retrieved 2026-10-27
- UNODC Data Portal, violent and sexual crime: Sexual violence: RapeUsed for 152 countries; counts toward 119. Years 2004 to 2024. Retrieved 2026-10-27.Not counted where: it republishes Eurostat; it republishes Brå.Open the publisher's pageData (Excel file)
- Eurostat, police-recorded offences by category (crim_off_cat), ICCS 03011 RapeUsed for 39 countries; counts toward 32. Years 2012 to 2024. Retrieved 2026-10-26.Not counted where: it republishes UNODC; it republishes Brå.Open the publisher's pageData (API)
- EU gender-based violence survey (EU-GBV), Eurostat table gbv_any_type, "Sexual - rape"Used for 27 countries; counts toward 27. Years 2020 to 2024. Retrieved 2026-10-26.Open the publisher's pageData (API)
- Eurostat, persons suspected of rape by sex (crim_hom_soff, ICCS 03011)Used for 8 countries; counts toward 8. Years 2023 to 2024. Retrieved 2026-10-27.Open the publisher's page
- Eurostat, population on 1 January by sex (demo_pjan)Used for 8 countries; counts toward 8. Years 2024. Retrieved 2026-10-27.Open the publisher's pageData (API)
- Brå, Anmälda brott (reported offences), Tabell 1.1 and 1.2Used for 1 country; counts toward 1. Years 2025. Retrieved 2026-10-26.Data (Excel file)
- UNODC Data Portal, persons arrested/cautioned/suspected for rape, by sexUsed for 8 countries; counts toward 0 (shown only). Years 2023 to 2024. Retrieved 2026-10-26.Not counted where: it republishes Eurostat.Open the publisher's pageData (Excel file)
Why the numbers differ (8)
- 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 (5)
- 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.
Context (4)
- Brå 2020:13, pp. 13-14: with Germany's legal conditions and statistical methods, Sweden would rank in the middle of Eurostat's statistics; Brå finds a well-run European victim survey a better source than police statistics for comparing countries, and says higher figures in Sweden than in southern and eastern Europe may reflect more rapes or a greater readiness to report them. Retrieved 2026-10-26.
- Eurostat crime metadata, with each country's comments on how its rape figures are counted. Retrieved 2026-10-26.
- UNODC metadata for the violent and sexual crime data. Retrieved 2026-10-27.
- Eurostat quality report for the EU gender-based violence survey: fieldwork, samples and response rates by country. Retrieved 2026-10-26.
Sources considered and not used (8)
- Rape suspects by citizenship (UNODC, Eurostat): UNODC publishes persons suspected, prosecuted and convicted by citizenship only for all offences together, not for rape, and Eurostat's table of suspects by offence has no citizenship breakdown. No citizenship share is shown. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- EU-GBV survey rows without a reliable rape figure: Eurostat publishes no rape share, or flags it as unreliable or defined differently, for: Italy (no rape figure), Montenegro (flag u), Kosovo* (flag u). (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- FRA violence against women survey (fieldwork 2012): An older survey of the same countries with a different questionnaire; the EU-GBV survey replaces it here. Its report has no country table for rape alone. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- Brå's recount of Sweden under German rules: A one-off estimate for 2013-2017, before Sweden's consent law; it is quoted under "Why the numbers differ" and shown on the Sweden rape page, not as a row here. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
- National police statistics other than Sweden's: National tables are the figures countries send to Eurostat and UNODC, so they would be the same collection. Only Brå's Swedish tables were already on file; other national offices were not added.
- Norway's consent-based rape law: Lovdata, Norway's law database, blocked scripted access, so the law text and its date could not be checked and no change is recorded for it.
- Italy: Neither Eurostat nor UNODC publishes a police-recorded rape figure for Italy in these tables.
- UNODC, Central Iraq: A sub-national part of Iraq with no national figure.
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