Theft in Europe: country by country
In the latest year available, the European countries with the highest rate of recorded theft were Luxembourg (2,711.9 per 100,000 people), Denmark (2,623.3) and Sweden (2,510.2). By number of cases the top three are France (1,312,589), Germany (1,148,913) and Italy (915,385): a high count also reflects population size, not just risk.
The total number of thefts recorded by police in each European country relative to population: the broadest measure of the context private security works in.
Highest values: per 100,000 people
All the data
| Luxembourg | 2,711.9 | 18,225 | +67.7% | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | 2,623.3 | 156,382 | −10.4% | 2024 |
| Sweden | 2,510.2 | 264,868 | −22.0% | 2024 |
| Finland | 2,277.0 | 127,600 | +2.4% | 2024 |
| Norway | 2,099.9 | 116,549 | +18.3% | 2024 |
| Switzerland | 1,966.1 | 176,206 | +26.6% | 2024 |
| France | 1,911.5 | 1,312,589 | −10.8% | 2024 |
| Belgium | 1,658.0 | 195,924 | −16.5% | 2024 |
| Italy | 1,552.3 | 915,385 | +2.4% | 2024 |
| Germany | 1,376.7 | 1,148,913 | +11.5% | 2024 |
| Ireland | 1,334.7 | 71,429 | +0.1% | 2024 |
| Netherlands | 1,330.5 | 238,730 | −1.7% | 2024 |
| Slovenia | 1,226.8 | 26,057 | −2.9% | 2024 |
| Austria | 1,180.0 | 108,072 | −9.4% | 2024 |
| Iceland | 1,002.2 | 3,844 | +2.9% | 2024 |
| Malta | 751.6 | 4,235 | −28.5% | 2024 |
| Estonia | 731.0 | 10,049 | +42.3% | 2024 |
| Portugal | 722.4 | 76,860 | −9.6% | 2024 |
| Latvia | 649.6 | 12,203 | −4.9% | 2024 |
| Liechtenstein | 639.8 | 256 | +37.9% | 2024 |
| Hungary | 629.6 | 60,346 | +8.0% | 2024 |
| Greece | 606.6 | 62,944 | −24.2% | 2024 |
| Spain | 450.9 | 219,211 | +3.3% | 2024 |
| North Macedonia | 440.9 | 8,051 | 2024 | |
| Lithuania | 409.5 | 11,818 | +5.0% | 2024 |
| Bulgaria | 381.8 | 24,610 | −19.4% | 2024 |
| Croatia | 300.9 | 11,621 | +3.4% | 2024 |
| Czechia | 296.0 | 32,267 | −47.3% | 2024 |
| Romania | 269.0 | 51,296 | −21.8% | 2024 |
| Poland | 249.2 | 91,252 | −7.8% | 2024 |
| Serbia | 210.8 | 13,923 | −18.8% | 2024 |
| Slovakia | 142.9 | 7,749 | −47.4% | 2024 |
| Türkiye | 100.7 | 85,958 | −61.9% | 2024 |
| Albania | 84.5 | 2,334 | −49.9% | 2023 |
| Cyprus | 65.4 | 632 | −10.8% | 2024 |
| Montenegro | 57.7 | 360 | −13.0% | 2024 |
How to read these figures
- These are police figures: they count offences reported and recorded, not all that happen.
- Eurostat warns that definitions and counting rules differ between countries: compare levels with caution; the trend within one country is more reliable.
- Each country shows its latest year from 2022 onwards; countries without recent data are not listed.
Source: Eurostat, Recorded offences by offence category - police data (crim_off_cat) · Licence: CC BY 4.0 · Data retrieved on