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Eurostat
Offence rates by category, annual (Europe)
Annual police-recorded offence rates by offence category - recorded offences per 100,000 inhabitants - for EU member states, EFTA countries and EU candidate countries. Eurostat dataset crim_off_cat ('Crimes recorded by the police by offence category'), filtered to freq=A, unit=P_HTHAB ('Per hundred thousand inhabitants'). Each row is one (year, country, offence category) over the 25 published ICCS categories (intentional homicide, attempted homicide, serious assault, kidnapping, sexual violence incl. rape and sexual assault, robbery, burglary, theft, drug offences, fraud, corruption, money laundering, cybercrime, environmental offences and others). Method: Eurostat compiles the statistics from police records transmitted by the national statistical institutes under the UNODC International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS); rates use the resident population as the denominator; category labels are kept verbatim from the API. Non-EU/EFTA/candidate series (the UK sub-national series UKC-L/UKM/UKN, Kosovo) are dropped (same licensing rule as the other Eurostat datasets). Units: offences per 100,000 inhabitants. Caveats: police recording practices differ across countries, so cross-country levels are less comparable than within-country trends; national recording-system changes create series breaks for some countries. Coverage: ~37 geographic units after the geo rule, 2008 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code, offence_code). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat updates the crime statistics in spring (2026-04-29 vintage covers 2008-2024). Sample use: filter offence_code='ICCS0101' to compare intentional-homicide rates across countries.
- crime
- eurostat
- europe
- annual
rows
9,797
Quality
100
Updated
Sep 24, 2026
Fresh
License
Commercial use OK
Eurostat
Recorded offences by category, annual (Europe)
Annual police-recorded offences by offence category - the number of offences recorded by the police - for EU member states, EFTA countries and EU candidate countries. Eurostat dataset crim_off_cat ('Crimes recorded by the police by offence category'), filtered to freq=A, unit=NR ('Number'). Each row is one (year, country, offence category) over the 25 published ICCS categories (intentional homicide, attempted homicide, serious assault, kidnapping, sexual violence incl. rape and sexual assault, robbery, burglary, theft, drug offences, fraud, corruption, money laundering, cybercrime, environmental offences and others). Method: Eurostat compiles the statistics from police records transmitted by the national statistical institutes under the UNODC International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS); category labels are kept verbatim from the API. Non-EU/EFTA/candidate series (the UK sub-national series UKC-L/UKM/UKN, Kosovo) are dropped (same licensing rule as the other Eurostat datasets). Units: number of recorded offences (counts). Caveats: police recording practices differ across countries, so cross-country levels are less comparable than within-country trends; national recording-system changes create series breaks for some countries; counts scale with population - the companion offence-rates dataset gives per-100,000 rates for direct comparisons. Coverage: ~37 geographic units after the geo rule, 2008 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code, offence_code). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat updates the crime statistics in spring (2026-04-29 vintage covers 2008-2024). Sample use: filter offence_code='ICCS0501' to track burglary counts across countries over time.
- crime
- eurostat
- europe
- annual
rows
10,060
Quality
100
Updated
Sep 24, 2026
Fresh
License
Commercial use OK
Eurostat
Homicide by victim relationship, annual (Europe)
Annual number of intentional homicide victims by victim-offender relationship - for EU member states, EFTA countries and EU candidate countries. Eurostat dataset crim_hom_vrel ('Intentional homicide victims by victim-offender relationship and sex'), filtered to freq=A, unit=NR ('Number'). Each row is one (year, country, relationship category, sex): the three published relationship categories are intimate partner or family member (IPTN_FAM), family member (FAM) and intimate partner (IPTN), each broken down by sex (T='Total', M='Male', F='Female'). Method: Eurostat compiles the statistics from national police and criminal-justice data collections. Non-EU/EFTA/candidate series (the UK sub-national series UKC-L/UKM/UKN, Kosovo) are dropped (same licensing rule as the other Eurostat datasets). Units: number of victims (counts). Caveats: intimate-partner homicide is the femicide-relevant measure but national definitions and under-recording differ, so cross-country levels are less comparable than within-country trends; published sex totals occasionally differ from male+female sums upstream (e.g. AL 2015 T=19 vs M+F=21) - values are kept verbatim and never recomputed. Coverage: ~28 geographic units after the geo rule, 2008 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code, relationship_code, sex). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat updates the crime statistics in spring (2026-04-29 vintage covers 2008-2024). Sample use: filter relationship_code='IPTN' and sex='F' to track female intimate-partner homicide victims over time.
- crime
- homicide
- eurostat
- europe
rows
2,476
Quality
100
Updated
Sep 24, 2026
Fresh
License
Commercial use OK
Eurostat
Homicide victim rates by relationship, annual (Europe)
Annual rates of intentional homicide victims per 100,000 inhabitants by victim-offender relationship - for EU member states, EFTA countries and EU candidate countries. Eurostat dataset crim_hom_vrel ('Intentional homicide victims by victim-offender relationship and sex'), filtered to freq=A, unit=P_HTHAB ('Per hundred thousand inhabitants'). Each row is one (year, country, relationship category, sex): the three published relationship categories are intimate partner or family member (IPTN_FAM), family member (FAM) and intimate partner (IPTN), each broken down by sex (T='Total', M='Male', F='Female'). Method: Eurostat compiles the statistics from national police and criminal-justice data collections; rates use the resident population as the denominator. Non-EU/EFTA/candidate series (the UK sub-national series UKC-L/UKM/UKN, Kosovo) are dropped (same licensing rule as the other Eurostat datasets). Units: victims per 100,000 inhabitants. Caveats: intimate-partner homicide is the femicide-relevant measure but national definitions and under-recording differ, so cross-country levels are less comparable than within-country trends; published sex totals occasionally differ from male+female sums upstream (e.g. AL 2015 T=19 vs M+F=21) - values are kept verbatim and never recomputed. Coverage: ~28 geographic units after the geo rule, 2008 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code, relationship_code, sex). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat updates the crime statistics in spring (2026-04-29 vintage covers 2008-2024). Sample use: filter relationship_code='IPTN' and sex='F' to compare female intimate-partner homicide rates across countries.
- crime
- homicide
- eurostat
- europe
rows
2,404
Quality
100
Updated
Sep 24, 2026
Fresh
License
Commercial use OK
Eurostat
Prisoner rates, annual (Europe)
Annual prisoner rates - prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants - for EU member states, EFTA countries and EU candidate countries. Eurostat dataset crim_pris_age ('Prisoners by age and sex'), filtered to freq=A, sex=T ('Total'), age=TOTAL ('Total'), unit=P_HTHAB ('Per hundred thousand inhabitants'). Each row is one (year, country): the total prison population per 100,000 residents, all ages and both sexes. Method: Eurostat compiles the statistics from national prison administrations; prisoner counts include convicted persons and persons held in pre-trial detention; rates use the resident population as the denominator. Non-EU/EFTA/candidate series (the UK sub-national series UKC-L/UKM/UKN, Kosovo) are dropped (same licensing rule as the other Eurostat datasets). Units: prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants. Caveats: national definitions of penal institutions differ (some countries exclude certain detention types), so cross-country levels are less comparable than within-country trends. Coverage: ~37 geographic units after the geo rule, 2008 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat updates the crime statistics in spring (2026-04-29 vintage covers 2008-2024). Sample use: filter country_code='FRA' to compare France's incarceration rate over time.
- crime
- prisoners
- eurostat
- europe
rows
594
Quality
100
Updated
Sep 24, 2026
Fresh
License
Commercial use OK
Eurostat
Prisoners, annual (Europe)
Annual number of prisoners - persons held in penal institutions - for EU member states, EFTA countries and EU candidate countries. Eurostat dataset crim_pris_age ('Prisoners by age and sex'), filtered to freq=A, sex=T ('Total'), age=TOTAL ('Total'), unit=NR ('Number'). Each row is one (year, country): the total prison population, all ages and both sexes. Method: Eurostat compiles the statistics from national prison administrations; prisoner counts include convicted persons and persons held in pre-trial detention. Non-EU/EFTA/candidate series (the UK sub-national series UKC-L/UKM/UKN, Kosovo) are dropped (same licensing rule as the other Eurostat datasets). Units: number of prisoners (counts). Caveats: national definitions of penal institutions differ (some countries exclude certain detention types), so cross-country levels are less comparable than within-country trends; counts scale with population - the companion prisoner-rates dataset gives per-100,000 rates for direct comparisons. Coverage: ~37 geographic units after the geo rule, 2008 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat updates the crime statistics in spring (2026-04-29 vintage covers 2008-2024). Sample use: filter country_code='DEU' to track Germany's prison population over time.
- crime
- prisoners
- eurostat
- europe
rows
610
Quality
100
Updated
Sep 24, 2026
Fresh
License
Commercial use OK
Eurostat
Prisoners by age class, annual (Europe)
Annual number of prisoners by age class - persons held in penal institutions - for EU member states, EFTA countries and EU candidate countries. Eurostat dataset crim_pris_age ('Prisoners by age and sex'), filtered to freq=A, sex=T ('Total'), unit=NR ('Number'); the age dimension keeps TOTAL ('Total'), JUVENILE ('Juvenile') and ADULT ('Adult'), all offence categories combined. Each row is one (year, country, age class). Method: Eurostat compiles the statistics from national prison administrations; prisoner counts include convicted persons and persons held in pre-trial detention. Non-EU/EFTA/candidate series (the UK sub-national series UKC-L/UKM/UKN, Kosovo) are dropped (same licensing rule as the other Eurostat datasets). Units: prisoners (counts). Caveats: national definitions of penal institutions differ (some countries exclude certain detention types), so cross-country levels are less comparable than within-country trends; the juvenile/adult age boundary is defined nationally and is not harmonized; counts scale with population - the companion prisoner-rates dataset gives per-100,000 rates for direct comparisons. Coverage: ~37 geographic units after the geo rule, 2008 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code, age_class). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat updates the crime statistics in spring (2026-04-29 vintage covers 2008-2024). Sample use: filter age_class='JUVENILE' to track the juvenile prison population over time.
- crime
- prisoners
- age
- demographics
rows
1,802
Quality
100
Updated
Sep 24, 2026
Fresh
License
Commercial use OK
Eurostat
Prisoners by offence category, annual (Europe)
Annual number of prisoners by offence category - persons held in penal institutions - for EU member states, EFTA countries and EU candidate countries. Eurostat dataset crim_pris_off ('Prisoners by offence category and sex'), filtered to freq=A, sex=T ('Total'), unit=NR ('Number'). Each row is one (year, country, offence category): the four published categories are intentional homicide (ICCS0101), rape (ICCS03011), sexual assault (ICCS03012) and bribery (ICCS07031). Method: Eurostat compiles the statistics from national prison administrations; prisoner counts include convicted persons and persons held in pre-trial detention. Non-EU/EFTA/candidate series (the UK sub-national series UKC-L/UKM/UKN, Kosovo) are dropped (same licensing rule as the other Eurostat datasets). Units: number of prisoners (counts). Caveats: national definitions of penal institutions differ (some countries exclude certain detention types), so cross-country levels are less comparable than within-country trends; the four offence categories do not sum to the total prison population - most prisoners are held for other offences (see the companion prisoners-annual dataset). Coverage: 35 geographic units after the geo rule, 2008 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code, offence_code). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat updates the crime statistics in spring (2026-04-29 vintage covers 2008-2024). Sample use: filter offence_code='ICCS03011' to compare rape prisoner counts across countries.
- crime
- prisoners
- homicide
- sexual-violence
rows
1,477
Quality
100
Updated
Sep 24, 2026
Fresh
License
Commercial use OK
Eurostat
Prisoners by sex, annual (Europe)
Annual number of prisoners by sex - persons held in penal institutions - for EU member states, EFTA countries and EU candidate countries. Eurostat dataset crim_pris_age ('Prisoners by age and sex'), filtered to freq=A, age=TOTAL ('Total'), unit=NR ('Number'); the sex dimension keeps T ('Total'), M ('Males') and F ('Females'), all offence categories combined. Each row is one (year, country, sex). Method: Eurostat compiles the statistics from national prison administrations; prisoner counts include convicted persons and persons held in pre-trial detention. Non-EU/EFTA/candidate series (the UK sub-national series UKC-L/UKM/UKN, Kosovo) are dropped (same licensing rule as the other Eurostat datasets). Units: prisoners (counts). Caveats: national definitions of penal institutions differ (some countries exclude certain detention types), so cross-country levels are less comparable than within-country trends; sex-T totals do not always equal the M+F sum where reporting is incomplete; counts scale with population - the companion prisoner-rates dataset gives per-100,000 rates for direct comparisons. Coverage: ~37 geographic units after the geo rule, 2008 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code, sex). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat updates the crime statistics in spring (2026-04-29 vintage covers 2008-2024). Sample use: filter sex='F' to track the female prison population over time.
- crime
- prisoners
- sex
- gender
rows
1,790
Quality
100
Updated
Sep 24, 2026
Fresh
License
Commercial use OK
Eurostat
Suspects and offenders by age, annual (Europe)
Annual suspected, prosecuted and convicted persons by age class - all offence categories combined - for EU member states, EFTA countries and EU candidate countries. Eurostat dataset crim_just_age ('Suspects and offenders by age'), filtered to freq=A ('Annual'), unit=NR ('Number'), age in (TOTAL 'Total', JUVENILE 'Juvenile', ADULT 'Adult'); all three legal statuses are kept. Each row is one (year, country, legal status, age class): the number of persons, from police and justice records compiled by Eurostat under the UNODC International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS): PER_SUSP 'Suspected person', PER_PRSC 'Prosecuted person', PER_CNV 'Convicted person'. Non-EU/EFTA/candidate series (the UK sub-national series UKC-L/UKM/UKN, Kosovo) are dropped (same licensing rule as the other Eurostat datasets). Units: persons (counts). Caveats: prosecution and conviction counts lag the offence year through the justice pipeline, and coverage of the pipeline stages differs across countries; the juvenile/adult age boundary is defined nationally and is not harmonized. Coverage: ~37 geographic units after the geo rule, 2008 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code, justice_status, age_class). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat updates the crime statistics in spring (2026-04-29 vintage covers 2008-2024). Sample use: filter justice_status='PER_SUSP' and age_class='JUVENILE' to track juvenile suspects over time.
- crime
- justice-system
- age
- demographics
rows
4,669
Quality
100
Updated
Sep 24, 2026
Fresh
License
Commercial use OK
Eurostat
Suspects and offenders by citizenship, annual (Europe)
Annual suspected, prosecuted and convicted persons by citizenship - all offence categories combined - for EU member states, EFTA countries and EU candidate countries. Eurostat dataset crim_just_ctz ('Suspects and offenders by citizenship'), filtered to freq=A ('Annual'), unit=NR ('Number'), citizen in (TOTAL 'Total', NAT 'Reporting country', FOR 'Foreign country'); all three legal statuses are kept. Each row is one (year, country, legal status, citizenship): the number of persons, from police and justice records compiled by Eurostat under the UNODC International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS): PER_SUSP 'Suspected person', PER_PRSC 'Prosecuted person', PER_CNV 'Convicted person'. Non-EU/EFTA/candidate series (the UK sub-national series UKC-L/UKM/UKN, Kosovo) are dropped (same licensing rule as the other Eurostat datasets). Units: persons (counts). Caveats: prosecution and conviction counts lag the offence year through the justice pipeline, and coverage of the pipeline stages differs across countries; citizenship is assigned by the reporting country and national definitions of nationals vs. non-nationals vary, so cross-country levels are less comparable than within-country trends. Coverage: ~37 geographic units after the geo rule, 2008 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code, justice_status, citizenship). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat updates the crime statistics in spring (2026-04-29 vintage covers 2008-2024). Sample use: filter justice_status='PER_SUSP' and citizenship='FOR' to track suspected non-nationals over time.
- crime
- justice-system
- citizenship
- demographics
rows
3,839
Quality
100
Updated
Sep 24, 2026
Fresh
License
Commercial use OK
Eurostat
Suspects and offenders by sex, annual (Europe)
Annual suspected, prosecuted and convicted persons by sex - all offence categories combined - for EU member states, EFTA countries and EU candidate countries. Eurostat dataset crim_just_sex ('Suspects and offenders by sex'), filtered to freq=A ('Annual'), unit=NR ('Number'), sex in (T 'Total', M 'Males', F 'Females'); all three legal statuses are kept. Each row is one (year, country, legal status, sex): the number of persons, from police and justice records compiled by Eurostat under the UNODC International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS): PER_SUSP 'Suspected person', PER_PRSC 'Prosecuted person', PER_CNV 'Convicted person'. Non-EU/EFTA/candidate series (the UK sub-national series UKC-L/UKM/UKN, Kosovo) are dropped (same licensing rule as the other Eurostat datasets). Units: persons (counts). Caveats: prosecution and conviction counts lag the offence year through the justice pipeline, and coverage of the pipeline stages differs across countries; sex-T totals do not always equal the M+F sum where reporting is incomplete. Coverage: ~37 geographic units after the geo rule, 2008 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code, justice_status, sex). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat updates the crime statistics in spring (2026-04-29 vintage covers 2008-2024). Sample use: filter justice_status='PER_CNV' and sex='T' to track convicted persons over time.
- crime
- justice-system
- sex
- gender
rows
4,435
Quality
100
Updated
Sep 24, 2026
Fresh
License
Commercial use OK