Historical chart and dataset showing Netherlands crime rate per 100K population by year from 1990 to 2021.

Between 2012 and 2022, the number of registered crime cases in the Netherlands decreased. In 2022, the police registered roughly ******* crime cases.

This table contains the number of persons died as a result of murder or manslaughter, where the crime scene is located in the Netherlands. The victims can be residents or non-residents of the Netherlands. The data can be split by location of the crime, method, age and sex. The criterion is the date of death, the date of the criminal act can be in the previous year. Since 2013 Statistics Netherlands is using Iris for automatic coding for causes of death. This improved the international comparison of the data. The change in coding did cause a considerable shift in the statistics. Since 2013 the (yearly) ICD-10 updates are applied. However for murder and manslaughter no changes in coding have taken place. The ICD-10 codes that belong to murder and manslaughter are X85-Y09. Data available from: 1996 Status of the figures: The figures up to and including 2023 are final. Changes as of January 23rd 2025: The figures for 2023 are made final. When will new figures be published: In the third quarter of 2025 the provisional figures for 2024 will be published.

Homicide rate of Netherlands slumped by 13.50% from 0.8 cases per 100,000 population in 2022 to 0.7 cases per 100,000 population in 2023. Since the 3.58% rise in 2021, homicide rate fell by 2.78% in 2023. “Intentional homicide” is defined as unlawful death purposefully inflicted on a person by another person

Netherlands - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area: Below 60% of median equivalised income was 21.10% in December of 2023, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Netherlands - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area: Below 60% of median equivalised income - last updated from the EUROSTAT on June of 2025. Historically, Netherlands - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area: Below 60% of median equivalised income reached a record high of 24.60% in December of 2009 and a record low of 17.40% in December of 2008.

In 2022, 355 cases of public violence were reported in Amsterdam, the capital city of the Netherlands. Of these , 315 were cases of public violence against other people. In comparison, 320 cases were registered in the previous year, 5 more than in the most recent period.

This statistic displays the total number of cases of drug-related crimes sent to Public Prosecution in the Netherlands in 2021, by type. In 2021, the Public Prosecution Department in the Netherlands received approximately 130 cases related to the production of hard drugs.

The Netherlands: Homicides per 100,000 people: The latest value from 2017 is 0.8 homicides per 100,000 people, an increase from 0.6 homicides per 100,000 people in 2016. In comparison, the world average is 7.4 homicides per 100,000 people, based on data from 97 countries. Historically, the average for the Netherlands from 1990 to 2017 is 1 homicides per 100,000 people. The minimum value, 0.6 homicides per 100,000 people, was reached in 2015 while the maximum of 1.4 homicides per 100,000 people was recorded in 1996.

In 2021, over 850 racist and xenophobic hate crimes were recorded by the police in the Netherlands. A further 716 Anti-LGBTI hate crimes were recorded, as well as 160 Anti-Semitic hate crimes that were recorded by the Dutch police.

Historical chart and dataset showing Sint Maarten (Dutch part) crime rate per 100K population by year from N/A to N/A.

Between 2012 and 2022, the number of registered sex crime cases in the Netherlands stayed stable. In 2022, over nine thousand sex crimes were registered in the Netherlands.

This statistic displays the number of violent crime victims as a share of the total population in the Netherlands from 2007 to 2017. It shows that in 2017, 2.1 percent of the Dutch population was a victim of a violent crime.

Crime in Amsterdam has fallen in recent years. But this does not apply to all forms of crime. Juvenile crime in Amsterdam, for example, increased after years of decline. There is also an increase in digitized crime. The datasets provide insight into, among other things, registered suspects, registered crimes, high-impact crimes and the proportion of Amsterdammers who have fallen victim to a crime. Our dashboard 'Safety in the picture' is also available for more figures on crime and victimization. See also the data portal of the police and StatLine, the database of Statistics Netherlands.

Level of education, social benefits claimants and crime suspects by 4-digit postcode zone, 2011-2012 (Dutch only)

Netherlands NL: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data was reported at 0.600 Ratio in 2015. This records a decrease from the previous number of 0.700 Ratio for 2014. Netherlands NL: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data is updated yearly, averaging 1.100 Ratio from Dec 1995 (Median) to 2015, with 21 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.939 Ratio in 1995 and a record low of 0.600 Ratio in 2015. Netherlands NL: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Netherlands – Table NL.World Bank: Health Statistics. Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.; ; UN Office on Drugs and Crime's International Homicide Statistics database.; Weighted average;

This statistic displays the number of murder and manslaughter victims in the Netherlands from 2012 to 2021. It shows that in 2021, 2,675 people became victim of murder or manslaughter in the Netherlands, a decrease of 10 compared to last year.

Netherlands NL: Intentional Homicides: Male: per 100,000 Male data was reported at 0.758 Ratio in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.736 Ratio for 2015. Netherlands NL: Intentional Homicides: Male: per 100,000 Male data is updated yearly, averaging 1.172 Ratio from Dec 2000 (Median) to 2016, with 17 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.709 Ratio in 2004 and a record low of 0.736 Ratio in 2015. Netherlands NL: Intentional Homicides: Male: per 100,000 Male data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Netherlands – Table NL.World Bank: Health Statistics. Intentional homicides, male are estimates of unlawful male homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.; ; UN Office on Drugs and Crime's International Homicide Statistics database.; ;

This table contains data on crime registered by the police, the suspects interviewed and the crimes cleared up. The figures are given by type of crime. The figures on suspects interviewed are given according to the suspect's gender and age. The registered crimes, cleared crimes and interviewed suspects are related to the population size of 12-79 years. The classification of the municipalities is based on the classification in the year following the year under review. The table was discontinued on 7 July 2010. A new series on registered crime has been included in the table since 2005: Reg.criminaliteit; crimes by type of crime and police region. Infoservice: http://www.cbs.nl/infoservice Copyright (c) Statistics Netherlands, Voorburg 2005 Reference to source is mandatory , reproduction for personal use or internal use is permitted.

ObjectiveTo examine determinants of the prevalence and frequency of criminal victimization (i.e. both personal and property crime victimization) in outpatients with severe mental illness.MethodsData was collected using a multisite epidemiological survey including a random sample of 956 adult outpatients with SMI. Data were collected between 2010 and 2012. Data on 12-month victimization prevalence and frequency were obtained using the victimization scale of the Dutch Crime and Victimization Survey. Demographic characteristics, clinical determinants, e.g., clinical diagnosis, psychosocial functioning, drug use and alcohol abuse over the past 12 months, co-morbid PTSD diagnosis, and victimological determinants e.g. physical abuse, physical neglect and sexual abuse in childhood, perpetration of violence over the past 12-months, and anger disposition were assessed as determinants. Univariable and multivariable hurdle regression analyses were conducted to test associations of the potential determinants with victimization prevalence and frequency.ResultsTwelve-month prevalence rates of personal and property crime were 19% and 28%, respectively. Clinical characteristics were more pronounced regarding personal crime victimization. In the multivariable model, presence of psychotic disorder, drug use, childhood physical and sexual abuse, and recent violent perpetration were associated with the 12-month prevalence or frequency rate of personal crime victimization. Native Dutch and divorced patients were more at risk as well. Next to this being employed, poor social functioning, having perpetrated a violent crime, as well as alcohol abuse and recent drug use were all significantly related to property crime prevalence or frequency rate in the multivariable model. In absolute terms, the effect sizes observed tended to be moderate to small. The multivariate models, however, explained the outcome variance moderately well (Nagelkerke’s pseudo R2 = 25.0 - 27.9%.ConclusionsClinicians should be aware of the high risk of victimization among their patients with severe mental illness. Particular attention should be devoted to people with substance use histories and perpetrators of violence, since they are also at an increased risk of being victims as well.

This table provides an overview of persons registered with Victim Support Netherlands and known in the social statistics files of Statistics Netherlands. The figures are broken down by age, gender, origin, type of client and type of crime. A person may turn to Victim Support Netherlands (SHN) for various offenses or accidents once or more during a reporting year. This person is then counted once in the table, at the first offence. The table also contains relative figures. This means that the number of people who have been in contact with Victim Support is shown per 100,000 inhabitants of the relevant population group. In addition to victims of crimes and accidents, witnesses, those involved, perpetrators or surviving relatives can also be clients of Victim Support Netherlands. Due to a change at Victim Support Netherlands in the allocation of client type, a trend break occurred between 2016 and 2017. In addition, there has been a phasing out of receiving the daily reports of traffic accidents that Victim Support Netherlands received. This mainly resulted in substantially fewer clients with the victim classification 'involved' in 2018. Data available from: 2009. Status of the figures: The figures up to and including 2020 are final. The figures for 2021 have a provisional status. Changes as of November 2022: The provisional figures for 2021 have been added. ​​CBS is switching to a new classification of the population by origin. From now on, where someone was born is more decisive than where someone's parents were born. The word migration background is no longer used. The main division western/non-western is replaced by a division based on continents and common immigration countries. This classification is gradually being introduced in tables and publications with population by origin. It can be decided that the origin classification will be dropped for a StatLine table. When will new numbers come out? The figures for the previous year will be published in November 2023.