The total number of criminal offences recorded last year totalled 2,325,358 offences, of which 1,949,852 (83.9 per cent of the total) corresponded to the category of conventional crime, which represents a reduction of 1.6 per cent over 2019, the statistical reference year as it was the last one not affected by the restrictions imposed to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Cybercrime recorded a total of 375,506 criminal offences (16.1 per cent of the total), an increase of 72 per cent over 2019.
Spain maintains a low crime rate compared to other European countries, such as the United Kingdom (79.5), Germany (60.7) and Belgium (74.8), Spain’s Ministry of Interior confirmed on Friday, March 1.
The Security Forces were aware of a total of 2,325,358 criminal offences in 2022, a figure that places the crime rate at 48.8 known criminal offences per thousand inhabitants, according to the Crime Balance for the fourth quarter of 2022.
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