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Which Country Has the Most Violent Crimes Recorded?

Number of Total Violent Crimes, 2012

Law & Crime | December 30, 2018

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Based on a comparison of 34 countries in 2012, United Kingdom ranked the highest in number of total violent crimes with 770,277 followed by France and Turkey. On the other end of the scale was Malta with 309, Montenegro with 339 and Macedonia with 841.

Data for more countries are available at Number of Total Violent Crimes indicator page.

Number of Total Violent Crimes	Unit	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Austria		...	...	...	...	...	...	...								43,316	46,217	47,034	47,602	44,618
Belgium		...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...							113,952	115,645	119,741	122,215	123,078
Finland		...														38,037	41,664	42,215	39,598	39,640
France		...														326,065	324,765	331,778	341,942	351,071
Germany		...														215,471	217,923	210,885	208,446	201,243
Hungary		...														29,728	29,645	33,035	32,046	38,445
Italy		...														145,209	153,997	146,598	131,610	127,736
Netherlands		...														138,215	138,850	133,510	136,600	129,450
Norway		...														22,591	23,205	23,848	24,261	24,222
Poland		...														61,399	54,629	52,122	51,128	49,194
Serbia		...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...							28,864	29,316	29,582	32,061	32,167
Spain		...	...													114,205	113,473	116,324	113,060	106,509
Sweden		...														98,154	104,627	108,448	111,703	113,262
Turkey		...														165,119	138,576	167,122	206,724	234,707
United Kingdom		...														1,035,002	943,288	896,587	881,610	849,675