Eurostat reports 11,507 offences of fraud recorded by the police in Ireland in 2024. Recorded offences are not the same as offences committed.
Eurostat reports that police in Ireland recorded 11,507 offences of fraud in 2024. Eurostat also publishes that as 215.02 per hundred thousand inhabitants; the rate is Eurostat's own, not a figure calculated here.
No comparison with the previous year is shown. Eurostat has not published a figure for the preceding year.
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 Ireland only with itself. The category is “Fraud” as defined in the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes, code ICCS0701.
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:IE:ICCS0701:2024- Retrieved
- 12 September 2026, 02:10 UTC
- Snapshot checksum
288372d1aab9c6c96dad637c2137c31733a8a62f0044a4d8b233925d7f085991
Where each figure above comes from (6 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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