In 2024, violent crime in France declined to approximately ******* recorded offenses, marking a notable drop compared to previous years. According to police crime statistics, this represents a decrease of over ****** cases from 2023, when ******* violent offenses were reported. This decline contrasts with the consistent rise in violent crime since 2016, when police recorded just ******* offenses against the person.

In 2024, more than ******* individuals in France were recorded as victims of personal violence offenses, the highest number reported since 2016.

France murder/homicide rate per 100K population for 2021 was 1.14, a 5.98% increase from 2020.

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<li>France murder/homicide rate per 100K population for 2020 was <strong>1.07</strong>, a <strong>8.22% decline</strong> from 2019.</li>
<li>France murder/homicide rate per 100K population for 2019 was <strong>1.17</strong>, a <strong>7.98% increase</strong> from 2018.</li>
<li>France murder/homicide rate per 100K population for 2018 was <strong>1.08</strong>, a <strong>2.18% decline</strong> from 2017.</li>
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The homicide rate in France for 2021 was **** homicides per 100,000 people. During the provided period the homicide rate was highest in 1993, when there were **** homicides per 100,000 population.

In France, in April 2025, the most common type of offense reported to the police was non-violent robbery against persons, with ****** cases. Moreover, *** armed robberies were committed during that time.

This chart shows the distribution of people involved in homicide cases in France in 2022, by nationality. It displays that ** percent of individuals accused of homicide in France were French.

Historical chart and dataset showing French Polynesia crime rate per 100K population by year from 2006 to 2009.

The monthly number of crimes and offenses recorded by the French police and gendarmerie fluctuated between January 2015 and August 2022, but increased overall. The month with the highest number of offenses recorded by police services was March 2022, with more than 352,000. In contrast, there were only 139,417 in April 2020, during the containment period set up by the French authorities to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

In France, in 2023, there were ***** homicides recorded by the security forces. The number of homicides recorded was the lowest in 2020. But it has increased continuously in the following years, reaching its highest level in 2023.

This graph presents the number of homicides recorded by security forces in France in 2021, distributed by region (per 10,000 inhabitants). The homicide ratio was the highest in French Guiana, with 0.1 homicides per 10,000 inhabitants. It was followed by the Guadeloupe region, which recorded 0.06 homicides per 10,000 inhabitants.

The France access control market, valued at €300 million in 2025, is poised for robust growth, exhibiting a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 7.30% from 2025 to 2033. This expansion is fueled by several key drivers. Increasing security concerns across commercial, residential, and government sectors are prompting greater adoption of advanced access control systems. The rising popularity of smart buildings and the Internet of Things (IoT) integration within security infrastructure are further contributing to market growth. Furthermore, the increasing need for streamlined access management and improved efficiency in various sectors, particularly transport and logistics, is driving demand for sophisticated solutions. The market is segmented by type (card readers, biometric readers, electronic locks, software, etc.) and end-user vertical (commercial, residential, government, etc.), offering diverse opportunities for market players. Technological advancements, such as the integration of artificial intelligence and cloud-based solutions, are shaping the future trajectory of the market, while potential restraints could include high initial investment costs and the need for skilled professionals for installation and maintenance. The competitive landscape is characterized by both established multinational corporations and specialized access control providers. Key players like Suprema Inc., Thales Group, Bosch Security Systems, and Honeywell International Inc. are leveraging their technological expertise and extensive distribution networks to maintain a strong market position. However, smaller, innovative companies are emerging with specialized solutions and disruptive technologies, potentially impacting the market share of established players. Growth is expected across all segments, but particularly within the biometric readers and software segments due to their enhanced security features and adaptability to evolving technological advancements. The continued focus on cybersecurity and data protection regulations will be a significant factor shaping the market in the years to come. Recent developments include: March 2024: Le Bourget Sports Park, the Paris Olympic Games climbing event venue, underwent a comprehensive renovation. To ensure security during and post-Olympics, the city selects Pollux, a French company specializing in electronic locks. Pollux highlights its technology, emphasizing simplified access management with electronic locks and the Iwa mobile access control solution. This approach addresses key management challenges for municipalities, offering secure and convenient access for stakeholders while reducing the risk of lost keys., January 2024: Thales finalized the acquisition of Imperva. Thales aims to fortify organizations' data protection and access management capabilities in the European and French markets. The acquisition marks the company's ninth investment in digital security within the past nine years. Imperva's incorporation strengthens Thales to advance cybersecurity solutions on a global scale.. Key drivers for this market are: Growing Adoption of Access Control Systems Owing to Rising Crime Rates and Threats, Technological Advancements. Potential restraints include: Growing Adoption of Access Control Systems Owing to Rising Crime Rates and Threats, Technological Advancements. Notable trends are: The Commercial Segment Holds one of the Highest Market Share.

France FR: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data was reported at 1.352 Ratio in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1.578 Ratio for 2015. France FR: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data is updated yearly, averaging 1.612 Ratio from Dec 1995 (Median) to 2016, with 22 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2.310 Ratio in 1995 and a record low of 1.216 Ratio in 2013. France FR: 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 France – Table FR.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;

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French Polynesia PF: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data was reported at 0.377 Ratio in 2009. This records a decrease from the previous number of 3.420 Ratio for 2008. French Polynesia PF: Intentional Homicides: per 100,000 People data is updated yearly, averaging 1.925 Ratio from Dec 2006 (Median) to 2009, with 4 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.420 Ratio in 2008 and a record low of 0.377 Ratio in 2009. French Polynesia PF: 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 French Polynesia – Table PF.World Bank.WDI: 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;

The homicide rate in Iceland varied between 2010 and 2022, from roughly 0.3 murders per 100,000 inhabitants in 2019, to 1.37 in 2020. In real figures, the total number of homicides reached five in 2020, an unusually high number for Iceland; since 1994 there were six years where no intentional homicides were committed in Iceland, although the last of these was in 2008. Iceland generally has one of the lowest homicide rates in Europe. The most dangerous countries in Europe and worldwide In Europe, Latvia had the highest murder rate in 2021 with 5.1 per 100,000 inhabitants. Malta had the lowest with 0.39. Worldwide, Saint Kitts and Nevis is the world's most dangerous country to live in in terms of murder rate. The Caribbean island country had a homicide rate of 65 per 100,000 inhabitants. Nine of the 10 countries with the highest murder rates worldwide are located in Latin America and the Caribbean. Celaya in Mexico was the city with the highest homicide rate worldwide. Victims of homicides In most of the European countries, a higher share of the victims of homicides are men. France was the country with the highest number of homicides on the continent, whereas Malta and Iceland had the lowest. France both had the highest number of female and male victims.

In April 2025, over ****** sexual offenses were reported to the police in France. Between 2020 and 2025, the number of reported sexual crimes steadily increased. For instance, around ***** cases were recorded in August 2020, rising to more than ****** by August 2024, the highest monthly total during the period analyzed.

In order to promote the openness of data on delinquency and insecurity, the Ministry of Internal Security Statistics Service (SSMSI, Department of the Ministry of the Interior) has made available two annual databases on the main indicators of crimes and crimes recorded by the national police and gendarmerie, since 2016 at the municipal level depending on the place of commission. These databases are intended to be enriched as other indicators are trusted (scams, destruction/voluntary degradation, infringements of drug legislation, etc.). Two elements must be taken into account when interpreting the level of indicators: * the time limit for registration, which may create a time lag between the time the infringements occurred and the time when they are accounted for; * the complaint filing rate has an impact on the level of crime recorded. Environment and Safety Investigations are used to assess complaint rates. For example, according to these surveys on average over the period 2011-2018, only 12 % of victims of sexual violence outside the household file complaints, compared with 74 % for victims of burglaries. In addition, it should be noted that municipal data are not reported for the low values of recorded delinquency, both for reasons of interpretability of these data and respect for statistical confidentiality. Thus, when fewer than 6 crimes or offences are committed in a commune (number assessed by class of facts), they are published only if the situation persists for 3 years. The same applies to the absence of recorded facts (noted 0), which is disseminated only when the situation recurs over three successive years. Given the non-distribution of these highly volatile and sometimes geographically imprecise data, the share of delinquency events disseminated at the municipal level varies, depending on the indicator, between 59 % (for theft with arms) and 94 % (for theft without violence against persons) in 2021. 11 indicators are published, corresponding to the agglomeration of items in the standardised nomenclature called “state 4001”, used since 1971 to measure the judicial activity of services through monthly counts: 1) Voluntary Coups and Injuries on Persons 15 years of age or older, which include 2) Intra-Family Voluntary Injuries and Injuries on Persons 15 years of age or older and (3) Voluntary Injuries and Voluntary Injuries on Persons 15 years of age or older, 4) Sexual Violence, 5) Thefts with Arms, 6) Violent Unarmed Flights, 7) Theft without Violence Against Persons, 8) Housing Cambriolages, 9) Thefts of Vehicles (Automotive or Two Motor Wheels), 10) Flights in Vehicles, 11) Accessories Flights on Vehicles. Metadata Link to metadata Additional resources * Website Data.gouv.fr: https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/bases-communale-et-departementale-des-principaux-indicateurs-des-crimes-et-delits-enregistres-par-la-police-et-la-gendarmerie-nationales/ The open platform of French public data offers for download the database of the main indicators of crimes and crimes recorded by the national police and gendarmerie, at the municipal and departmental level for the whole of France. * Website of the Ministry of the Interior: https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Interstats/Publications/Interstats-Analyse/Geographie-de-la-delinquance-a-l-echelle-communale-Interstats-Analyse-N-44 The official website of the Ministry of the Interior offers for download the n°44 of Interstats Analyse, its publication dedicated to in-depth studies on topics related to insecurity and delinquency. This issue is devoted to the geography of delinquency at the communal scale. * Statistics-locales.insee: https://statistiques-locales.insee.fr/#bbox=-87880,6478122,406214,245401&c=indicator&i=ssmsi_nb_taux.tpm_cbv&s=2021&view=map1 The website of the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), dedicated to the visualisation of the indicators of the territory, allows to consult the 11 indicators per municipality throughout France (rate per thousand and number of facts)

In 2023, 88 percent of the victims of rape or attempted rape recorded by the French security forces were women. The proportion of men among the perpetrators of these crimes was 98 percent. Regarding sexual offenses, 85 percent of the victims were women, and 96 percent of the perpetrators were men. It should also be noted that the older the victims, the more women are represented among them.

The Life and Security Framework Surveys (CVS) were conducted annually between 2007 and 2021, with a sample of 20,000 to 25,000 households, by INSEE in partnership with the National Observatory on Crime and Criminal Response (ONDRP, deleted at the end of 2020) and the Ministry of Internal Security ([SSMSI] SSMSI, established in 2014), and characterised the “victims” of households and individuals (i.e. the crime of which households and their members may have been victims in the two years preceding the survey) through a multiple analysis: — the measurement of the number of attacks, of households victimised or of victims, of multivictimation; — the rates of filing a complaint; — identification of the profile of victims and perpetrators and the context; — the assessment of material, bodily or psychological consequences; — an analysis of the feelings of insecurity of individuals and their level of satisfaction with the action of the justice system and the security forces. These data are distinct and complementary to those recorded by the national police and gendarmerie, as victims do not always file complaints. Combined, they provide valuable tools for assessing and analysing both delinquency and feeling of insecurity. In order to encourage the opening of data on crime and insecurity, the SSMSI makes available on the open platform French public data 19 annual indicators of victimisation and sense of insecurity relating to metropolitan France and from CVS surveys, which are an indispensable complement to the statistics on crime recorded by the security forces (police and gendarmerie). All statistics from CVS surveys are also available on the SSMSI website: CVS surveys ** Warning:** the 2019 Victims Framework and Safety 2020 survey, scheduled for the second quarter of 2020, could not be conducted by INSEE. As a result of the measures put in place to combat the Covid-19 epidemic, INSEE was forced to interrupt its face-to-face investigations from 16 March and resumed them only from 15 July. Given the length of the questionnaire and the topics covered, it was not possible to switch the collection of the CVS 2020 survey by telephone to the timetable set. The collection of CVS 2021 was prepared and developed in order to adapt to the health situation with the possibility of a face-to-face procurement and an alternative to telephone procurement where the questionnaire was then reduced, in particular with the complete removal of the self-administered part. Developments in the health situation required a collection exclusively by telephone from 19 April to 9 June and a mixed telephone/face-to-face collection from 9 June to 26 June 2021. From 2022 onwards, the national statistical survey Vecu and Ressenti en sécurité (VRS), conducted by the SSMSI, will replace CVS surveys (for more details: VRS survey) Last update: February 2022 Annual update.

In 2022, disputes and unaccepted separations were the main motives for the male perpetrators of domestic homicide. 29 men killed their spouses due to an unaccepted separation in that year. Unknown causes were also common, as well as jealousy. The number of women killed by their spouse has fluctuated in France since 2006 but has decreased overall. There were 148 in that year, compared to 118 in 2022. Spikes in the number of deaths of women by their partners were also recorded for the years 2007, 2012, and 2019.