eupublicdata LIVE

TOPIC · 7 INDICATORS · EUROSTAT

Justice & crime

Police-recorded offences, prison populations and crime victimisation across EU member states. Counts are administrative; cross-country comparison is sensitive to legal definitions and reporting practices.

EU-27 average

146

Range (min)

2

Range (max)

882

Countries covered

27/27

Justice & crime across the EU

Latest values for Police-recorded offences by offence category (2024) across 27 EU member states. Click a country tile for its full profile.

Finland: 100.0 FI 100.0 Sweden: 92.0 SE 92.0 Denmark: 52.0 DK 52.0 Estonia: 25.0 EE 25.0 Ireland: 37.0 IE 37.0 Netherlands: 120.0 NL 120.0 Germany: 694.0 DE 694.0 Poland: 254.0 PL 254.0 Latvia: 45.0 LV 45.0 Belgium: 166.0 BE 166.0 Luxembourg: 2.0 LU 2.0 Czechia: 69.0 CZ 69.0 Slovakia: 59.0 SK 59.0 Lithuania: 76.0 LT 76.0 France: 882.0 FR 882.0 Austria: 78.0 AT 78.0 Hungary: 66.0 HU 66.0 Romania: 151.0 RO 151.0 Portugal: 72.0 PT 72.0 Spain: 349.0 ES 349.0 Italy: 336.0 IT 336.0 Slovenia: 15.0 SI 15.0 Bulgaria: 79.0 BG 79.0 Cyprus: 9.0 CY 9.0 Malta: 5.0 MT 5.0 Croatia: 39.0 HR 39.0 Greece: 81.0 EL 81.0
2.0 882.0

Top 10 · highest police-recorded offences by offence category

  1. 1France882
  2. 2Germany694
  3. 3Spain349
  4. 4Italy336
  5. 5Poland254
  6. 6Belgium166
  7. 7Romania151
  8. 8Netherlands120
  9. 9Finland100
  10. 10Sweden92

Bottom 10 · lowest police-recorded offences by offence category

  1. 27Luxembourg2
  2. 26Malta5
  3. 25Cyprus9
  4. 24Slovenia15
  5. 23Estonia25
  6. 22Ireland37
  7. 21Croatia39
  8. 20Latvia45
  9. 19Denmark52
  10. 18Slovakia59

Snapshot year 2024 · 27 countries covered · EU-27 avg 146

All indicators in this topic

Every Eurostat indicator currently held for this topic, grouped into reader-friendly clusters. Each card links to the cross-country profile with the full time series.

Recorded offences

4 indicators

Prison populations

3 indicators

Related topics

Topic

Income, poverty & living conditions

Topic

Migration & asylum

Sources & methodology

Data on this page comes from Eurostat (7 indicators), fetched from the official dissemination API. Ranking snapshots use the most recent year with at least 18 covered member states; smaller samples are flagged. See methodology for the full ranking rules and data caveats.

Last refreshed: 2026-05-18 · Source: Eurostat dissemination API