Europe's Declining Robbery Rates

Map created by reddit user Agitated_Style7700

The map above shows a rather suprising fact, despite what the media tells you, robbery rates in most European countries (expect Iceland) have dramatically fallen between 2003 and 2024.

From the original map author:

NOTE: for some countries the closest year was take as no data was available for example Germany had data take at 2023 instead of 2024 because it has unavailable the reason is listed below:
If a country does not submit a year’s data, submits data that are not comparable with the UN definition, or the data fail validation, UNODC leaves the entry blank rather than estimating it.

sources: https://data.unodc.org/datareport/violent-offences

Here are the rates for European countries in 2003 and again below in 2023/24

Country	Robbery Rate per 100,000 People In 2003
France	206.3
United Kingdom (England and Wales)	196.2
Portugal	189.1
Lithuania	144.0
Estonia	137.5
Poland	135.3
United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)	128.3
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	126.5
Latvia	109.3
Belarus	105.1
Sweden	95.7
United Kingdom (Scotland)	82.1
Ukraine	75.5
Germany	72.8
Italy	72.3
Bulgaria	63.2
Switzerland	59.2
Denmark	59.0
Czechia	53.7
Malta	47.8
Ireland	42.9
Finland	39.2
Slovakia	35.7
Hungary	32.5
Norway	31.5
Croatia	28.7
Greece	21.2
Slovenia	17.5
Iceland	13.5
Romania	12.9
Liechtenstein	11.7
Montenegro	8.0
Monaco	6.2

2023/24

Country	Robbery Rate per 100,000 People In 2023/24
Spain	131.4
United Kingdom (England and Wales)	123.3
Belgium	120.4
Portugal	90.2
Luxembourg	86.2
France	85.5
Germany	53.1
Italy	48.3
Finland	46.1
Sweden	44.9
United Kingdom (Scotland)	35.0
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)	34.7
Malta	33.0
Austria	32.7
Ireland	31.1
Greece	28.8
United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)	28.6
Iceland	26.1
Norway	25.0
Switzerland	23.7
Denmark	22.3
Croatia	19.5
Liechtenstein	17.6
Latvia	17.1
North Macedonia	16.1
Romania	15.1
Slovenia	14.1
Bulgaria	13.5
Czechia	13.3
Lithuania	11.8
Republic of Moldova	11.6
Poland	11.0
Serbia	9.6
Bosnia and Herzegovina	8.4
Estonia	7.4
Hungary	5.5
Montenegro	5.0
Albania	3.2
Holy See	0.0