Eurostat reports 170 offences of serious assault recorded by the police in Cyprus in 2024. Recorded offences are not the same as offences committed.
Eurostat reports that police in Cyprus recorded 170 offences of serious assault in 2024. Eurostat also publishes that as 17.59 per hundred thousand inhabitants; the rate is Eurostat's own, not a figure calculated here.
In 2023 the figure was 156 offences, so 2024 is 14 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 Cyprus only with itself. The category is “Serious assault” as defined in the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes, code ICCS020111.
Times
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- Reporting period
- 2024
- Source last revised
- 29 April 2026, 09:00 UTC
- Published here
- 12 September 2026, 02:10 UTC
Evidence
- Record identifier
crim_off_cat:CY:ICCS020111:2024- Retrieved
- 12 September 2026, 02:10 UTC
- Snapshot checksum
f00df3752c75fb9c2744409cb3b37019b076b55a435d1468231d681fb935b050
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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