Progress
Stagnation or regression
Stagnation or regression

Desired direction: Decrease

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Headline data

Population that reports the occurrence of crimes, violence or vandalism in their area (EU indicator sdg_16_20)
Year Value Units
2023 22.1 %
2018 15.6 %
2013 23.0 %

Geographical Area:

Unit of Measurement:

Footnote:

Methodological sheet of the indicator available for the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country.

Available indicator

Population that reports the occurrence of crimes, violence or vandalism in their area (EU indicator sdg_16_20)
Target

16.1 Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere
Goal

16- Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Definition

Proportion of people who report living in an area with crime or vandalism problems
Theoretical formula \[PPDVZ^{t} = \frac{PDVZ^{t}}{P^{t}} \cdot 100\]

where:

$PDVZ^{t} =$ people who report living in an area with crime or vandalism problems in year $t$

$P^{t} =$ total population in year $t$
Available disaggregations

Province
Frequency

Annual
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Indicator calculated using a methodology harmonised across the central statistical bodies of the autonomous communities
Data last updated 2025/05/08
Metadata last updated 2025/06/18

Source 1

Department of Health
Organisation Department of Health
Periodicity Five-yearly
Link to data source Health Survey

This section provides more information about the United Nations indicator or the European Union Sustainable Development Indicator, such as its rationale, international results, metadata, and other relevant statistics.

Rationale

The indicator shows the share of the population who reported facing a problem of crime, violence or vandalism in their local area. This describes the situation where the respondent feels crime, violence or vandalism in the area to be a problem for the household, although this perception is not necessarily based on personal experience.

On 24 July 2020, the European Commission presented a new EU Security Union Strategy for the period 2020-2025, which replaces the previous security strategy set out in the European Agenda on Security (2015-2020). As a central component of the strategy, the Commission defines a new way forward on internal security with actions in key areas: organized crime; terrorism and preventing violent radicalization; resilience of our critical infrastructure and public spaces; cybercrime, including the fight against child sexual abuse; police cooperation and information sharing; and research and innovation.

Safety is a crucial aspect in people’s lives. Insecurity of any kind is a source of fear and worry, which negatively affect quality of life. Physical insecurity includes all the external factors that could potentially put the individual’s physical integrity in danger. Criminal actions are one of the most obvious abuses of insecurity. Analyses of physical insecurity usually combine both subjective and objective aspects – the subjective perception of insecurity and the objective lack of safety as measured by crime statistics. This indicator therefore complements the indicator on homicide rates by focussing on the perception of insecurity.

Source: Eurostat
Comparability between the available indicator and the UN indicator

The available indicator complies with the EU indicator metadata.
International results

Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area by poverty status (sdg_16_20) Eurostat
Link to UN metadata

Metadata sdg_16_20
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