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17 questions, with yearly data from 1870 to 2026.

Questions

QuestionYearsTrust
Are immigrants in the US incarcerated or convicted more or less often than US-born people?0.46 times as likely as US-born men aged 18–40 to live in an institution (mostly prisons, jails and immigration detention), 2024Other crime · United States1870–202488 High
How do arrest rates in the US differ by race and sex, and how have they changed since 1980?4,721.74 all offenses arrests per 100,000 Black residents, 2025Other crime · United States1980–202563 Moderate
How do arrests, convictions and prison numbers in England and Wales differ by ethnicity?10.57 arrests per 1,000 people who define themselves as White, Year ending 31 March 2026Other crime · United Kingdom2005–202663 Moderate
How do conviction rates in Denmark differ by origin, before and after adjusting for age and income?316 index points for male descendants from non-Western countries, where all men aged 15-79 = 100 (unadjusted), 2024Other crime · Denmark1980–202655 Low
How do crime rates in Norway differ by citizenship and immigrant background?1,635.97 persons charged per 100,000 immigrants, Annual average 2021-2023Other crime · Norway1992–202668 Moderate
How do crime suspect and conviction rates in Switzerland differ by nationality and residence status?42.13 % of people accused of all Criminal Code offences who belong to the group "Swiss citizens", Cases closed by police in calendar year 2025Other crime · Switzerland1984–202563 Moderate
How do crime suspect rates in Finland differ by origin, including for sexual offences?2,528.38 suspects of penal code offences per 100,000 people with Finnish background, Year the offence was solved, 2025Other crime · Finland1990–202563 Moderate
How do crime suspect rates in the Netherlands differ by origin, and within the same income group?500 registered crime suspects per 100,000 people born in the Netherlands, both parents born in the Netherlands, 2025Other crime · Netherlands2005–202663 Moderate
How does registered crime differ by migration background in Sweden?2.51 times as often registered as a crime suspect as people born in Sweden to two Swedish-born parents (no adjustment), Offences committed 2015-2018Other crime · Sweden2001–201860 Moderate
How has the share of non-German citizens among crime suspects in Germany changed since 1993, for rape, homicide and other crimes?35.52 % of crime suspects who are not German citizens, immigration offences left out, Cases passed to prosecutors in each calendar yearOther crime · Germany1970–202563 Moderate
How much does the crime rate depend on age and sex?48.19 men aged 18-20 charged with an offence per 1,000 men of that age, Final police or prosecution decisions in 2024Other crime · Norway, Germany1970–202563 Moderate
Is crime rising in England and Wales?Falling Crime Survey for England and Wales down 33.6% (2016–2026)Other crime · United Kingdom2016–202663 Moderate
Is crime rising in Norway?Falling SSB down 8.4% (2015–2025)Other crime · Norway1983–202571 Moderate
Is crime rising or falling in the United States?Sources disagree FBI down 14.3% (2015–2025), NCVS up 30.9% (2015–2024)Other crime · United States1960–202573 Moderate
Is knife crime rising in England and Wales?Falling Police down 11.6% (2020–2026), Hospital down 29.7% (2020–2026), Homicide Index down 33.6% (2020–2026)Other crime · United Kingdom2016–202690 High
Is youth crime rising in Norway?Falling SSB charged down 6.6% (2014–2024)Other crime · Norway2014–202563 Moderate
What share of crime suspects in Germany are not German citizens?40.08 % of crime suspects who are not German citizens, Cases passed to prosecutors in calendar year 2025Other crime · Germany2024–202571 Moderate
Who publishes what (28 countries, 7 breakdowns)

Years this site has for each country and breakdown. "Stopped" means the country's figures in the UN homicide file stop after that year while its totals continue (reporting gaps). An empty cell means no source on this site, not that none exists.

CountryOffenders by country of birth or originOffenders by immigration statusOffenders by ethnicity or raceOffenders by sexVictims by ethnicity or raceOffenders by citizenshipOffenders by age
NOR1992–2024––1987–2025–1992–20241987–2025
USA1870–20241870–20241980–20251980–2025–––
CHE–1984–2025–1984–2025–1984–2025–
DEU–––1987–2025–1987–20251987–2025
FIN2000–2025––2000–2025–2000–2025–
NLD2005–2025––2005–2025––2005–2025
Armenia–––Stopped after 2018, totals to 2024–Stopped after 2018, totals to 2024–
GBR––2005–2026–2005–2026––
Russian Federation–––Stopped after 2020, totals to 2024–Stopped after 2020, totals to 2024–
Sri Lanka–––Stopped after 2016, totals to 2022–Stopped after 2018, totals to 2022–
Andorra–––Stopped after 2015, totals to 2020–––
Azerbaijan–––Stopped after 2017, totals to 2024–––
Cabo Verde–––Stopped after 2015, totals to 2020–––
DNK2008–2025––––––
Dominican Republic–––Stopped after 2020, totals to 2024–––
Egypt–––Stopped after 2011, totals to 2017–––
Georgia–––Stopped after 2010, totals to 2019–––
Japan–––––Stopped after 2016, totals to 2024–
Liechtenstein–––Stopped after 2016, totals to 2024–––
Myanmar–––Stopped after 2015, totals to 2022–––
North Macedonia–––Stopped after 2014, totals to 2024–––
Poland–––Stopped after 2015, totals to 2024–––
Republic of Moldova–––Stopped after 2014, totals to 2024–––
SWE2001–2018––––––
Tajikistan–––Stopped after 2011, totals to 2020–––
Trinidad and Tobago–––Stopped after 2020, totals to 2024–––
Uganda–––Stopped after 2014, totals to 2024–––
United Republic of Tanzania–––Stopped after 2015, totals to 2024–––
Recorded changes in how sources report (137)
  • 2025, Home Office: Derbyshire Constabulary could not provide data for 2024/25 and 2025/26 because of data quality issues; its data are excluded from time series comparisons (Home Office note 10). source · page
  • 2025, MoJ prisons: Roma shown as a separate White category from 30 June 2025 (Table 1.A.22). source · page
  • 2025, NCVS: The survey was redesigned; the 2025 estimates are not comparable with earlier years, so this series stops at 2024. source · page
  • 2024, MoJ CJSQ: MoJ: 33% of defendants at magistrates' courts and 36% at the Crown Court had an unknown ethnicity in 2024; recording relies on earlier stages and is not mandatory. source · page
  • 2024, BFS PKS: On 1 July 2024 the revised sexual criminal law (AS 2024 27) took effect. Art. 190 now covers intercourse or a similar act involving penetration of the body against the will of a person, of any sex, without requiring coercion; coercion remains an aggravated form. BFS: "Ein Vergleich der Zahlen mit früheren Jahren ist daher nur eingeschränkt möglich" (PKS report 2025, p. 5). source · page
  • 2024, BFS SUS: From conviction year 2024 BFS identifies everyone who belonged to the permanent resident population at the start of the year, so its conviction rates are no longer limited to Swiss citizens and foreigners with a B or C permit. source · page
  • 2024, CBS 85658NED: In February 2024 CBS discontinued its suspect tables by migration background (last year 2022) and published new tables by own and parents' birthplace and country of origin, covering 2010 onwards. source · page
  • 2024, CBS 85658NED: The new tables no longer estimate missing suspects registered by the Royal Marechaussee, deduplicate 2020-2022 better and drop arrested suspects; CBS says the figures differ slightly from the old tables. source · page
  • 2024, CBS 85658NED: Figures for 2024 and 2025 are provisional; CBS says provisional figures undercount suspects, by a few percent in the most recent year. source · page
  • 2024, CBS old table: The new tables no longer estimate missing suspects registered by the Royal Marechaussee, deduplicate 2020-2022 better and drop arrested suspects; CBS says the figures differ slightly from the old tables. source · page
  • 2024, CBS 81947NED: The new tables no longer estimate missing suspects registered by the Royal Marechaussee, deduplicate 2020-2022 better and drop arrested suspects; CBS says the figures differ slightly from the old tables. source · page
  • 2024, BKA suspects: Possession and home growing of cannabis were partly legalised on 1 April 2024; the BKA says suspect totals for 2024 and 2025 are not comparable with earlier years (PKS 2025 report, p. 8). source · page
  • 2024, Convicted: Possession and home growing of cannabis were partly legalised on 1 April 2024; the BKA says suspect totals for 2024 and 2025 are not comparable with earlier years (PKS 2025 report, p. 8). source · page
  • 2024, BKA German: From 2024 the rates use population figures based on the 2022 census; the BKA says comparison with earlier years is only possible to a limited extent. source · page
  • 2024, BKA German: Possession and home growing of cannabis were partly legalised on 1 April 2024; the BKA says suspect totals for 2024 and 2025 are not comparable with earlier years (PKS 2025 report, p. 8). source · page
  • 2024, BKA non-German: From 2024 the rates use population figures based on the 2022 census; the BKA says comparison with earlier years is only possible to a limited extent. source · page
  • 2024, BKA non-German: Possession and home growing of cannabis were partly legalised on 1 April 2024; the BKA says suspect totals for 2024 and 2025 are not comparable with earlier years (PKS 2025 report, p. 8). source · page
  • 2024, BKA: From 2024 the rates use population figures based on the 2022 census; the BKA says comparison with earlier years is only possible to a limited extent. source · page
  • 2024, BKA: Possession and home growing of cannabis were partly legalised on 1 April 2024; the BKA says suspect totals for 2024 and 2025 are not comparable with earlier years (PKS 2025 report, p. 8). source · page
  • 2024, Destatis: From 2024 the rates use population figures based on the 2022 census; the BKA says comparison with earlier years is only possible to a limited extent. source · page
  • 2024, Crime Survey for England and Wales: OSR reinstated the survey's accreditation after a review. source · page
  • 2023, Home Office: In November 2022 the Metropolitan Police changed data system; the share of its arrest records without self-defined ethnicity rose from 4% in 2021/22 to 69% in 2023/24 and was 34% in 2025/26 (Home Office note 14). source · page
  • 2023, Home Office: Arrests by officer-observed ethnicity published from 2022/23, alongside self-defined ethnicity (Table A_01d). source · page
  • 2023, DST StatBank: The statistics on convicted persons appeared in the publication Kriminalitet up to and including 2023; DST now publishes them in StatBank and in Indvandrere i Danmark (documentation, section 8.5). source · page
  • 2023, SSB 2021-23: The update for 2020-2023 (published 9 December 2024, changed 17 December 2024) added persons charged per 1,000 residents to Table 3 and uses SSB's Standard for world division, which SSB says differs minimally from the grouping used for 2015-2018. Neither table set covers 2019. source · page
  • 2023, StatFin 13zk: Act 723/2022 amending the Criminal Code entered into force on 1 January 2023. Rape is now sexual intercourse with a person who does not participate voluntarily, with a list of situations where participation is not voluntary; sexual intercourse with a child under 16 is a separate offence, rape of a child (Chapter 20, Section 12). source · page
  • 2023, StatFin 13zk: Statistics Finland: offences under the new sexual offences legislation are recorded under their own headings from 2023, and headings under the old legislation, marked (-2022), are still used. This page adds the old and new rape headings together from 2023. source · page
  • 2023, StatFin 13jg: Act 723/2022 amending the Criminal Code entered into force on 1 January 2023. Rape is now sexual intercourse with a person who does not participate voluntarily, with a list of situations where participation is not voluntary; sexual intercourse with a child under 16 is a separate offence, rape of a child (Chapter 20, Section 12). source · page
  • 2023, StatFin 13jg: Statistics Finland: offences under the new sexual offences legislation are recorded under their own headings from 2023, and headings under the old legislation, marked (-2022), are still used. This page adds the old and new rape headings together from 2023. source · page
  • 2023, SSB survey: SSB made adjustments to the national survey after new European regulations on social statistics in 2021, including new weights; non-response weighting now uses sex, age, education, income, family size, immigrant background and county, and earlier published figures were not reweighted. source · page
  • 2022, CBS 85658NED: On 16 February 2022 CBS announced it would replace the classification by migration background (first and second generation; western and non-western) with own and parents' birthplace plus country of origin by world region and main migration countries, introduced table by table. Its stated reasons: the terms western and non-western are geographically incorrect, and diversity within the two groups is large. source · page
  • 2022, CBS old table: Last year published by migration background and generation; CBS discontinued the table in February 2024. source · page
  • 2022, CBS 85384NED: On 16 February 2022 CBS announced it would replace the classification by migration background (first and second generation; western and non-western) with own and parents' birthplace plus country of origin by world region and main migration countries, introduced table by table. Its stated reasons: the terms western and non-western are geographically incorrect, and diversity within the two groups is large. source · page
  • 2022, CBS 81947NED: Last year published by migration background and generation; CBS discontinued the table in February 2024. source · page
  • 2022, CBS 81947NED: On 16 February 2022 CBS announced it would replace the classification by migration background (first and second generation; western and non-western) with own and parents' birthplace plus country of origin by world region and main migration countries, introduced table by table. Its stated reasons: the terms western and non-western are geographically incorrect, and diversity within the two groups is large. source · page
  • 2022, CBS 84910NED: On 16 February 2022 CBS announced it would replace the classification by migration background (first and second generation; western and non-western) with own and parents' birthplace plus country of origin by world region and main migration countries, introduced table by table. Its stated reasons: the terms western and non-western are geographically incorrect, and diversity within the two groups is large. source · page
  • 2022, Destatis: From 2022 results are based on the 2022 census. source · page
  • 2022, Destatis: From 2022 results are based on the 2022 census. source · page
  • 2022, Crime Survey for England and Wales: The statistics regulator (OSR) suspended the survey's accreditation after its response rate fell. source · page
  • 2021, FBI CDE: On 1 January 2021 the UCR Program moved to NIBRS-only collection. The FBI states that "participation for 2021 remained below a statistically acceptable level to be nationally representative"; from 2022 it again accepted Summary Reporting System data from agencies that had not switched. The population covered by agencies reporting to the CDE fell from 95.9% in 2020 to 77.0% in 2021 and was 94.8% in 2022 (12-month average of the CDE's monthly coverage). source · page

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