Eurostat reports 836 offences of sexual violence recorded by the police in Croatia in 2023. Recorded offences are not the same as offences committed.
Eurostat reports that police in Croatia recorded 836 offences of sexual violence in 2023. Eurostat also publishes that as 21.71 per hundred thousand inhabitants; the rate is Eurostat's own, not a figure calculated here.
In 2022 the figure was 718 offences, so 2023 is 118 more than the year before. Both figures come from the same Eurostat series for the same country and the same offence category. No percentage change is given: on a small base, a proportional figure reads as a large movement when the difference is a handful of records.
These are offences recorded by the police, which is not the same as offences committed. The figure moves with how willing people are to report an offence, with how the police record what is reported, and with changes in law and in counting rules, as well as with offending itself. A rise or a fall in this number does not by itself establish that any of those has changed.
Eurostat publishes the figures as each country supplies them and does not harmonise recording practice between them, so figures for different countries are not comparable with one another. This brief therefore compares Croatia only with itself. The category is “Sexual violence” as defined in the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes, code ICCS0301.
Times
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- Reporting period
- 2023
- Source last revised
- 29 April 2026, 09:00 UTC
- Published here
- 12 September 2026, 02:10 UTC
Evidence
- Record identifier
crim_off_cat:HR:ICCS0301:2023- Retrieved
- 12 September 2026, 02:10 UTC
- Snapshot checksum
93e639b006788563ab547d1cd4c0f48e565e481ce52fa620e4b0c3f13822ebe6
Where each figure above comes from (7 values)
Revision history
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12 September 2026, 02:10 UTC — First publication
Assembled from the source record listed under evidence. This record predates the start of this service's coverage and was added when the source was first read.
Limits of this brief
Offences recorded by the police in the twenty-seven EU member states, for eight offence categories: intentional homicide, serious assault, sexual violence, robbery, burglary, unlawful acts involving controlled drugs, fraud, and acts against computer systems. Eurostat publishes twenty-five categories; the other seventeen are not reported. The figures are annual and arrive about a year and a half in arrears, so this section is quiet for most of the year and then publishes a year's worth at once. Recorded offences are not offences committed. The count moves with how willing people are to report an offence, with how the police record what is reported, and with changes in law and counting rules, as well as with offending itself. A rise or a fall does not by itself establish that any of those has changed, and no brief here says it does. Eurostat publishes what each country supplies and does not harmonise recording practice between them, so figures for different countries are not comparable with one another. No brief here places one country beside another: a comparison is only ever a country with its own preceding year, from the same series and the same category, and it is withheld entirely where Eurostat flags either year as a break in series or a change of definition. Differences between years are given as a number of offences. No percentage change is published: on a small base a proportional figure reads as a large movement when the underlying difference is a handful of records.
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