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Known criminal offences (Spain) in Spain

Known criminal offences (Spain) in Spain was 2.47 million in 2025, according to Ministerio del Interior (Secretaría de Estado de Seguridad). That is up 0.8% from 2024.

2025, count2,474,156 Provisional
Change on 2024+0.8%
Series high2,474,1562025
Series low1,766,7792020

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Known criminal offences (Spain) in Spain, 2016 to 2025

1.6M1.8M2M2.2M2.4M2.6M201620182020202220252016: 2,009,690 count2017: 2,045,784 count2018: 2,131,118 count2019: 2,199,475 count2020: 1,766,779 count2021: 1,957,719 count2022: 2,323,075 count2023: 2,464,759 count2024: 2,454,206 count2025: 2,474,156 count1.6M1.8M2M2.2M2.4M2.6M2016202020252016: 2,009,690 count2017: 2,045,784 count2018: 2,131,118 count2019: 2,199,475 count2020: 1,766,779 count2021: 1,957,719 count2022: 2,323,075 count2023: 2,464,759 count2024: 2,454,206 count2025: 2,474,156 count
count. Source: Ministerio del Interior, Balance de Criminalidad, cuarto trimestre: total infracciones penales. Retrieved 2026-10-12, published 2026-05-03.
All 10 values
Periodcount
20252,474,156 Provisional
20242,454,206
20232,464,759
20222,323,075
20211,957,719
20201,766,779
20192,199,475
20182,131,118
20172,045,784
20162,009,690

Revision history

The 2024 figure was revised once after Invokely first recorded it, from 2.46 million to 2.45 million.

Periods with a revised value or a changed status, newest first. Values in count; dates are when Invokely recorded each version (UTC).
PeriodFirst recordedLatestRevisionsStatus changesFirst recorded onLast revised on
20242,456,4132,454,20610
20232,459,6592,464,75910
20222,325,3582,323,07510
20211,957,7191,957,71901
20201,773,3661,766,77910
20192,201,8592,199,47510
All 8 periods with changes
Periods with a revised value or a changed status, newest first. Values in count; dates are when Invokely recorded each version (UTC).
PeriodFirst recordedLatestRevisionsStatus changesFirst recorded onLast revised on
20242,456,4132,454,20610
20232,459,6592,464,75910
20222,325,3582,323,07510
20211,957,7191,957,71901
20201,773,3661,766,77910
20192,201,8592,199,47510
20182,131,4242,131,11810
20172,045,7852,045,78410

Every version, with its dates and source, is available through the get_revisions tool and the /api/v1/revisions endpoint. Methodology

Definition

All criminal offences (delitos and delitos leves) known to the police during the year.

More on how it is measured
  • Known offences (hechos conocidos): criminal offences recorded by the Policía Nacional, the Guardia Civil, the regional police forces and the local police forces that report to the Sistema Estadístico de Criminalidad, whether reported by the public or found by the police.

Since 2023 the total includes offences committed online (cibercriminalidad), which the ministry now reports in a separate block; they were part of the total before as well. Spain only: the country, its comunidades autónomas and its provinces from 2016, and municipalities over 20,000 residents from 2023. Calendar-year totals from the fourth-quarter Balance de Criminalidad of the Ministry of the Interior.

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Origen de los datos: Portal Estadístico de Criminalidad, Ministerio del Interior. Balance de Criminalidad, cuarto trimestre: total infracciones penales. https://estadisticasdecriminalidad.ses.mir.es/publico/portalestadistico/balances.html. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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APA 7

Ministerio del Interior (Secretaría de Estado de Seguridad). (2026). Balance de Criminalidad, cuarto trimestre: total infracciones penales (Known criminal offences (Spain), Spain, 2016 to 2025) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://estadisticasdecriminalidad.ses.mir.es/publico/portalestadistico/balances.html

MLA 9

Balance de Criminalidad, cuarto trimestre: total infracciones penales, Known criminal offences (Spain), Spain, 2016 to 2025. Ministerio del Interior (Secretaría de Estado de Seguridad), 3 May 2026, https://estadisticasdecriminalidad.ses.mir.es/publico/portalestadistico/balances.html. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/known-criminal-offences-spain/spain. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

Ministerio del Interior (Secretaría de Estado de Seguridad). 2026. Balance de Criminalidad, cuarto trimestre: total infracciones penales. Known criminal offences (Spain), Spain, 2016 to 2025. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://estadisticasdecriminalidad.ses.mir.es/publico/portalestadistico/balances.html. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/known-criminal-offences-spain/spain.

Harvard

Ministerio del Interior (Secretaría de Estado de Seguridad) (2026) Balance de Criminalidad, cuarto trimestre: total infracciones penales, Known criminal offences (Spain), Spain, 2016 to 2025 [Dataset]. Available at: https://estadisticasdecriminalidad.ses.mir.es/publico/portalestadistico/balances.html, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/en/known-criminal-offences-spain/spain (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX
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  title = {{Balance de Criminalidad, cuarto trimestre: total infracciones penales: Known criminal offences (Spain), Spain, 2016 to 2025}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://estadisticasdecriminalidad.ses.mir.es/publico/portalestadistico/balances.html},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/known-criminal-offences-spain/spain. Publisher attribution: Origen de los datos: Portal Estadístico de Criminalidad, Ministerio del Interior. Balance de Criminalidad, cuarto trimestre: total infracciones penales. https://estadisticasdecriminalidad.ses.mir.es/publico/portalestadistico/balances.html. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}
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Known criminal offences (Spain) in Spain was 2.47 million in 2025, according to Ministerio del Interior (Secretaría de Estado de Seguridad). That is up 0.8% from 2024.

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Ministerio del Interior (Secretaría de Estado de Seguridad). Balance de Criminalidad, cuarto trimestre: total infracciones penales. Retrieved by Invokely on 2026-10-12.

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