Read this before the charts
Loss Pressure Index
| # | Country | Index | Pressure | 5-year trend | Confidence | Categories |
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Pressure is the country's percentile against the other reporting countries in the reference year, averaged over the categories it actually reports. Trend is the median change across those categories over the window. Confidence is reporting completeness, not accuracy — a grade A country can still record crime differently from its neighbour.
Ranked by category
Offences per 100,000 inhabitants, as published by Eurostat. Countries that did not report this category in this year are absent, not zero.
Germany, category by category
Within one country the recording practice is broadly constant, which makes the trend the sounder reading. Each line is indexed to its own first available year, so categories of very different size can share an axis.
Germany against its neighbours
Different source · not comparable with the charts above
Germany, from the national statistic
Everything above this line is Eurostat. Everything below it is the Bundeskriminalamt's own Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik, which counts to German recording rules rather than the harmonised international definition. The two are never joined: splicing a BKA year onto a Eurostat line would put a definition change in the middle of a trend and hide it. What BKA gives that Eurostat cannot is on the right — a shoplifting category, a clearance rate, sixteen Bundesländer, and a year Eurostat has not published yet.
By Bundesland
| # | Bundesland | Per 100,000 | Cases | Cleared |
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The same category since 1987
Rate on the left axis, the share of cases police closed with a suspect on the right. A clearance rate is not a recovery rate.