Recorded sexual violence rate

These are POLICE-RECORDED offences — not actual crime. A recorded rate is how many offences police *recorded* per 100,000 people. That depends on (1) how many victims report, (2) how police record incidents, and (3) how the offence is legally defined — and all three vary enormously between countries. So a high recorded rate can mean more crime or more reporting / broader law, and a low rate can mean victims simply don't come forward. Recorded-crime rates partly measure institutional trust, not just crime. Read this as an institutional signal, never a danger ranking, and never as "crime level".

Scope: European reporting countries only (Eurostat; roughly three dozen countries). There is no Americas, Asia, Africa, or Oceania data here — those are shown as "no data", not filled in.

Why homicide is Tier A but this is Tier C: bodies are hard to conceal and the definition of homicide converges internationally, so homicide counts are comparable — the international gold standard. Recorded counts of other offences are not.

Direction is higher_worse and we percentile-rank (100 = fewest recorded among covered countries, 0 = most). Latest year per country; earlier years form the sparkline.

Canonical caution (why this metric misleads). Sweden's recorded sexual-violence rate is among the highest here largely because of an unusually broad legal definition and high reporting, not because it is unusually dangerous. This metric partly measures willingness to report and how widely the law defines the offence — not the amount of harm.