Danish crime rates per nationality
I’ll keep the charts in mainly Danish unless there is a viewership that will demand a translation.
The population data is from Danish Statistics which has a ton of data for various things in the country. It very likely is the best country stats site in the world. I’ve used quite a few different ones and only USA was on the same level. You can even create charts on the page itself and pivot data and you can ask them for help with making sense of data. They have English versions of all data too.
The inmates data I use is from another state website, Kriminalforsorgen. I extracted the data from their PDF files depicting general yearly stats.
Inmates (2018)
First chart is the number of people with a certain country citizenship in Denmark and then the number of inmates with a certain citizenship. I also calculated the percentages of all people with a certain citizenship who were in prison in 2018. The citizenship numbers are very different from the country of origin numbers. There are many more people from Lebanon in Denmark than people who have Lebanese citizenship.
I‘ve made these charts for different years, 2015–2018, but here I just posted the newest year we have numbers for so far. It often takes a year or two to get such data together for them. The thin grey vertical line in the chart shows you how big a percentage of people with Danish citizenship were in prison in Denmark in 2018.
So in 2018 there were 343 people with Albanian citizenship in Denmark according to official numbers from Danish Statistics. And according to Kriminalforsorgen data there were 27 people with Albanian citizenship in prison and jail. 27 out of 343 is 7.9%, as shown with the blue line.
Inmates and criminals on probation or in community service (2018)
Here the numbers are not for citizenship but rather for country of origin:
Second numbers column is inmates plus “tilsynsklienter” which is pretty much criminals on probation and in community service. In this column people who don’t live in Denmark are excluded. Again I calculated percentages with blue lines.
Convicted people (2018)
First numbers column is country of origin inhabitants.
Second numbers column is how many people were found guilty of a crime in 2018:
Again I calculated the percentages.
Inmates and criminals on probation or in community service
This chart I translated into English. The numbers have changed so much from 2006 till 2018 that it’s a totally new issue for the country. The country has changed and new and bigger solutions are needed. It will be interesting to see if the government can react in time to this change or if the consequences will have to be felt much stronger before any change is made.
As you can see people who don’t live in Denmark actually make up 5% of the currently convicted criminals.
According to the same PDF file in Copenhagen only 34% of these currently convicted people are Danish.
