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Low on crime
deal with the Covid19 pandemic.
Cybercrime recorded a total of 375,506 criminal offences (16.1 per cent of the total), an increase of 72 per cent over 2019.
Spain maintains a low crime rate compared to other European countries, such as the United Kingdom (79.5 per 1,000 inhabitants), Germany (60.7 per 1,000 inhabi tants) and Belgium (74.8 per 1,000 inhabitants).
The Security Forces were aware of a total of 2,325,358 criminal offences in 2022, a figure that places the crime rate at 48.8 known criminal offences per thousand inhabitants, according to the Crime Balance for the fourth quarter of 2022, published on the website of the Ministry of the Interior.
