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European Institute for Gender Equality

Agency of the European Union

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Feb 1, 2026
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How do UNODC, Eurostat and national victimisation surveys differ in measuring sexual violence across Europe?

compiles submitted by national authorities and harmonises counts through metadata and validation rules, runs an -coordinated victimisation survey () alongside administrative statistics to measure prev...

Feb 1, 2026

What academic studies compare victimisation survey estimates of sexual violence between Poland and the UK?

Three strands of academic and large-scale comparative work enable direct or quasi-direct comparison of victimisation survey estimates of and : the EU‑wide survey and methodology work (including a pilo...

Dec 14, 2025

Which European countries showed the largest change in rape convictions per reported rape from 2020 to 2023?

There is no single dataset in the provided sources that lists "rape convictions per reported rape" by European country for 2020 and 2023, so a direct ranking or identification of the countries with th...

Nov 20, 2025

How does the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) define and count rape?

Brå records rape using Sweden’s criminal-law definition, which since 1 July 2018 treats “sex without consent” as rape and added a separate offence of negligent rape; Brå’s statistics show 10,167 rapes...

Nov 15, 2025

Is sweden the safest place with no rapes to live in

Sweden is not “the safest place with no rapes”; official and academic sources show Sweden records many reported rapes (10,167 registered in 2024 per the Swedish crime authority) and reported sexual of...