Sweden is the top country by rape rate in the world. As of 2015, rape rate in Sweden was 56.7 cases per 100,000 population. The top 5 countries also includes Iceland, Guyana, the United States of America, and El Salvador.
The description is composed by our digital data assistant.“Rape” means sexual intercourse without valid consent. (UN-CTS M3.4)
| 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 3.9 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 1.9 |
| Mauritius | 3.1 | 4.1 | 4.6 | ||||
| Zimbabwe | 36.9 | ||||||
| Sao Tome and Principe | 1.2 | 1.7 | |||||
| Rwanda | 3.0 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.4 | |||
| Mozambique | 0.3 | ||||||
| Cameroon | 3.3 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 1.9 |
| Algeria | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.5 |
| Egypt | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||
| Botswana | 91.1 | 86.1 | 91.6 | ||||
| Morocco | 1.6 | 3.9 | 7.1 | ||||
| Cabo Verde | 24.5 | 22.2 | 26.6 | 21.3 | 17.9 | 20.4 | |
| Nigeria | 0.5 | ||||||
| Senegal | 2.7 | 5.4 | 0.4 | ||||
| Bahamas | 26.4 | 21.6 | 29.2 | 25.8 | |||
| Burundi | 7.3 | 6.6 | 10.0 | 9.1 | 10.6 | ||
| St. Kitts and Nevis | 28.7 | 35.9 | |||||
| Barbados | 28.1 | 22.5 | 25.0 | 18.8 | 20.5 | 19.1 | 22.2 |
| Canada | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.4 | |||
| Jamaica | 26.5 | 31.0 | 34.6 | 30.7 | 25.3 | 21.3 | |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 80.0 | 25.6 | 51.2 | 18.3 | |||
| Grenada | 22.3 | 22.9 | 34.3 | 18.0 | 34.0 | 16.9 | 32.8 |
| Belize | 16.9 | 6.5 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 7.6 | 12.5 | |
| Costa Rica | 35.5 | 35.7 | 30.7 | 36.2 | |||
| Argentina | 8.1 | 8.7 | 8.0 | ||||
| Honduras | 23.5 | 13.5 | 13.2 | 7.5 | |||
| Nicaragua | 24.6 | 31.9 | |||||
| El Salvador | 5.9 | 5.4 | 6.5 | 6.3 | 6.0 | 36.7 | |
| Brazil | 20.7 | 20.6 | 24.5 | 24.4 | |||
| Ecuador | 10.9 | 14.2 | 12.9 | 13.4 | 11.1 | 9.1 | |
| Paraguay | 21.5 | 20.1 | 15.0 | 19.3 | 18.9 | 17.1 | |
| Mexico | 12.4 | 12.6 | 12.4 | 13.0 | 13.3 | 11.9 | 12.6 |
| Tajikistan | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | ||||
| Uruguay | 6.7 | 6.5 | 7.6 | 8.5 | 9.2 | 8.0 | |
| Panama | 23.2 | 27.5 | 28.0 | 31.7 | 28.7 | 23.9 | 23.0 |
| Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 1.5 | ||
| Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 12.5 | 29.2 | 25.5 | 33.8 | |||
| Chile | 18.5 | 20.9 | 18.8 | 18.2 | 16.1 | 15.3 | |
| Guyana | 15.5 | 31.8 | 35.5 | 35.4 | 41.9 | ||
| Peru | 22.7 | 22.4 | 24.9 | 29.5 | 28.2 | 28.5 | 29.3 |
| Kazakhstan | 10.2 | 8.5 | 10.6 | 13.7 | 18.4 | 14.6 | 13.3 |
| Bhutan | 6.3 | 7.5 | 8.1 | 7.7 | |||
| Bangladesh | 7.9 | ||||||
| Turkmenistan | 0.6 | ||||||
| Singapore | 2.8 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 2.9 |
| Cyprus | 3.8 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 1.7 |
| Japan | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | |
| Macao Special Administrative Region of China | 4.9 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 5.7 | 5.1 | |
| Brunei Darussalam | 6.6 | ||||||
| Philippines | 3.4 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 9.1 | 10.0 | |
| Lebanon | 4.3 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 3.3 | |
| India | 1.6 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.6 | ||
| Thailand | 7.7 | 4.1 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 2.1 |
| Turkey | 2.5 | ||||||
| Nepal | 0.8 | ||||||
| Belarus | 5.0 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | |
| Maldives | 2.7 | 3.8 | 0.9 | 1.4 | |||
| Jordan | 1.5 | ||||||
| Republic of Moldova | 6.7 | 9.0 | 7.1 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 8.6 | |
| Georgia | 3.2 | 1.9 | 1.0 | ||||
| State of Palestine | 2.9 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |||
| Armenia | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.0 |
| Israel | 18.5 | 13.8 | 13.8 | ||||
| Azerbaijan | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
| United Arab Emirates | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.9 | ||
| Bulgaria | 5.3 | 2.9 | 2.1 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 2.1 | 1.7 |
| Ireland | 10.7 | 10.4 | 19.6 | 11.1 | 9.7 | 10.2 | 11.5 |
| Romania | 4.7 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 4.9 | 4.5 | 5.2 |
| Denmark | 8.8 | 17.2 | 15.3 | 15.5 | 14.9 | 14.8 | 18.5 |
| Yemen | 0.5 | ||||||
| Lithuania | 7.9 | 6.7 | 6.2 | 5.9 | 4.5 | 5.4 | 5.4 |
| Slovakia | 3.7 | 2.2 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| Czechia | 5.8 | 5.6 | 6.4 | 6.3 | 5.6 | 6.4 | 5.7 |
| Andorra | 1.2 | 2.4 | 6.3 | 4.0 | 8.2 | 1.4 | |
| Latvia | 11.3 | 3.7 | 2.4 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.0 |
| Russian Federation | 6.4 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 2.7 |
| Estonia | 13.2 | 6.1 | 6.9 | 10.8 | 10.2 | 11.2 | 12.3 |
| Croatia | 3.2 | 3.3 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 6.4 | 7.9 | 6.1 |
| Kuwait | 4.8 | ||||||
| Hungary | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 3.9 |
| Syrian Arab Republic | 0.7 | ||||||
| Portugal | 3.5 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 3.6 |
| Malta | 1.8 | 2.7 | 4.4 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 2.6 | 5.5 |
| Norway | 17.3 | 19.2 | 21.7 | 22.2 | 22.4 | 21.9 | |
| Spain | 4.9 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 2.7 |
| Finland | 11.3 | 15.2 | 19.3 | 18.6 | 17.9 | 18.4 | 19.1 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.9 |
| Belgium | 28.7 | 30.3 | 30.9 | 30.7 | 30.0 | 27.4 | 25.4 |
| Poland | 5.2 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 4.9 | 3.2 |
| Germany | 10.0 | 9.6 | 9.4 | 10.0 | 9.2 | 9.1 | 8.7 |
| Monaco | 8.9 | ||||||
| Montenegro | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| Greece | 1.6 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| Solomon Islands | 13.9 | ||||||
| North Macedonia | 4.6 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 2.2 | |
| Switzerland | 8.7 | 6.9 | 7.0 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 6.8 | 6.4 |
| Ukraine | 2.0 | 1.4 | |||||
| Serbia | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
| Iceland | 25.3 | 30.8 | 39.9 | 37.7 | 55.3 | 39.4 | 54.0 |
| France | 16.3 | 16.1 | 16.5 | 17.1 | 17.5 | 19.0 | 20.1 |
| Netherlands | 15.3 | 10.0 | 9.6 | 8.4 | 7.2 | 7.0 | 7.1 |
| New Zealand | 24.0 | 25.8 | 30.1 | 29.8 | 32.1 | ||
| Sweden | 36.9 | 58.4 | 64.0 | 62.3 | 58.5 | 64.9 | 56.7 |
| Albania | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.9 |
| Liechtenstein | 11.5 | 5.5 | 10.9 | 8.1 | 13.4 | 2.7 | |
| Slovenia | 2.9 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 2.0 |
| Austria | 8.2 | 10.4 | 11.6 | 10.4 | 10.9 | 9.9 | 9.7 |
| Luxembourg | 13.0 | 13.5 | 14.3 | 16.3 | 13.1 | ||
| Uganda | 2.6 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 2.9 | 2.9 | |
| United States of America | 31.9 | 27.6 | 27.0 | 27.1 | 35.9 | 37.0 | 38.6 |
| Dominican Republic | 15.7 | 2.8 | |||||
| Trinidad and Tobago | 25.8 | 16.3 | 15.0 | 21.3 | 15.7 | 14.6 | 13.2 |
| Guatemala | 2.4 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.8 | |
| Colombia | 6.1 | 7.1 | 7.9 | 11.2 | 11.3 | 14.7 | 27.8 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 5.8 | 5.8 | 6.0 | 5.7 | 5.9 | 5.7 | 4.8 |
| Mongolia | 12.7 | 12.6 | 13.3 | 10.9 | 12.0 | 10.3 | 9.4 |
| Indonesia | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | |
| Sri Lanka | 8.7 | 8.7 | 10.8 | 10.6 | |||
| Bahrain | 2.9 | ||||||
| Myanmar | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 1.3 | |
| Puerto Rico | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 4.5 | |
| Iraq (Central Iraq) | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.5 | ||
| Madagascar | 2.3 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.4 | |
| United Republic of Tanzania | 14.2 | 12.6 | 12.6 | 12.2 | 11.6 | 10.9 |