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What are the annual numbers and rates (per 100,000) of reported rape, convicted rape, and rape-related arrests in Sweden from 2020–2024?
Executive summary
Available official Swedish figures for 2024 report 10,167 registered rape offences and 25,879 total reported sexual offences; Brå (the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention) states the number of reported rape offences rose 7% in 2024 [1]. The material provided in the search results includes time-series data to 2023 (Statista citing Brå) but does not contain a single, complete table or explicit annual counts and per‑100,000 rates for every year 2020–2024 in one place — so exact year-by-year convictions and arrest numbers for 2020–2024 are not fully available in the current set of sources [2] [1].
1. What the official reporting (Brå) gives you: reported rape counts and a 2024 headline
Brå’s summary for 2024 states there were 10,167 registered rapes in 2024 and 25,879 reported sexual offences overall; it also says reported rape offences increased by 7% from 2023 to 2024 [1]. The Brå page is the agency responsible for Sweden’s judicial statistics and is presented as the primary source for those counts [1].
2. What the public sources in the file do not provide: a complete 2020–2024 table of reported rapes, convictions, and arrests
Among the search results, Statista has a chart (based on Brå) covering reported sexual offences by type through 2023, which may include reported rape counts through 2023, but the Statista entry cited here is not a downloadable full dataset in the provided excerpts and does not include 2024 in the snippet [2]. The assembled results do not include a single source that lists annual counts and rates per 100,000 for reported rape, convicted rape, and rape-related arrests for each year 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 in one place — therefore those precise year-by-year items are “not found in current reporting” within the provided sources [2] [1].
3. Convictions and arrests: important gaps and where you would normally look
The search results contain scholarly studies about convictions and offenders across longer periods (for example, convictions 2000–2015 in an academic article) but do not provide convictions or arrest totals by year for 2020–2024 in the current excerpt [3]. The Brå landing page in the results is the agency that publishes judicial-system statistics including processed offences and suspects, so the agency’s detailed tables or Excel files (mentioned on Brå’s site) would normally be the place to extract annual convictions and numbers of persons suspected/arrested — but those detailed files are not included in the provided snippets here [1].
4. How definitions and counting rules change interpretation
International and longitudinal comparisons of “rape rates” are strongly affected by definitions and counting practice: Sweden records multiple offence counts within one case (for instance multiple instances reported by the same victim can be recorded as separate offences) and has broadened legal definitions and recording practices over time, which inflates registered counts relative to many other countries and complicates trend interpretation [4] [5]. Academic and overview sources warn that increases in registered rapes can reflect definitional, reporting and recording changes rather than only changes in incidence [4] [5].
5. What the scholarly literature in the results adds on convictions and offenders
Studies in the results examine convicted offenders and background factors across longer periods — for example one analysis reports 3,039 offenders convicted of rape+ against a woman between 2000 and 2015 [3]. Another recent research piece discusses Sweden’s high per‑capita reported rape rate in context and examines predictors of conviction over decades, but these are not year-by-year official counts for 2020–2024 [6] [3].
6. How you can obtain the precise numbers and per‑100,000 rates requested
To produce the exact annual numbers and rates per 100,000 for reported rape, convicted rape, and rape-related arrests for 2020–2024 you should retrieve Brå’s detailed yearly tables and processed‑offence/ persons‑suspected data (Brå publishes downloadable tables and processed offences files referenced on its statistics pages) and combine them with Sweden’s annual population totals (Brå or Statistics Sweden). The Brå summary page cited here confirms the 2024 reported rape count and points to downloadable processed-offences material, but those specific year-by-year figures are not present in the provided snippets [1] [2].
Limitations and final note: This answer relies only on the documents returned in your search. The provided sources state the 2024 reported rape figure [7] [8] and reference Brå’s statistical downloads, but do not include a full, explicit 2020–2024 breakdown of reported rapes, convictions, and arrests with per‑100,000 rates; those detailed annual tables are therefore not available in the current search results [1] [2].