Non-citizen crime trends
Recorded justice outcomes over the years.
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Germany · police-recorded suspects · Police suspects by offence · BKA
Data 2014–2025 · Source retrieved 17 Sept 2026
Retrieval confirms when the source was collected, not that the underlying figures describe today.
Published Not stated · Retrieved 17 Sept 2026
Source period: 2014-01-01–2025-12-31
Release schedule: Annual; reviewed before publication.
Next release: No confirmed next publication date is recorded here.
How updates are checked →Sum of annual person counts for the selected years. A person can appear in more than one year; this is not a count of unique people or crimes.
Non-German suspects (BKA) over time
2014–2025These are recorded suspects, not findings of guilt or convictions.
Definitions & limitations
Police-recorded suspects, not convictions or offences. BKA counts a person once within each annual offence category; people recur across categories and years. Non-German includes people without German citizenship, including stateless or unresolved nationality and non-residents. German dual citizens are classified as German. Counts are not all migrant crimes or population rates. Legal and recording changes affect comparability: the 2016 sexual-law reform, later sexual-offence changes, the 2021 threats-law expansion and 2024 cannabis reform require care. The cannabis change also breaks comparison between the transitional 2024 year and the first full year in 2025 for all offences, offences excluding immigration law and drug offences. The chart marks relevant boundaries. The overall counts cannot be compared as unchanged legal coverage across these reforms. Categories overlap and must not be added together. Nationality does not identify birthplace, naturalization or immigration status.
These data identify citizenship or nationality. They do not separately identify foreign-born people or naturalized citizens. Counts are not population rates, and changes can reflect reporting, enforcement or justice-system practices.
| Period | Non-German suspects (BKA) · people | Source notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 · calendar year | 37,031 | — |
| 2024 · calendar year | 36,776 | — |
| 2023 · calendar year | 35,771 | — |
| 2022 · calendar year | 38,393 | — |
| 2021 · calendar year | 32,919 | — |
| 2020 · calendar year | 31,765 | — |
| 2019 · calendar year | 32,007 | — |
| 2018 · calendar year | 33,612 | — |
| 2017 · calendar year | 32,877 | — |
| 2016 · calendar year | 26,361 | — |
| 2015 · calendar year | 20,813 | — |
| 2014 · calendar year | 18,965 | — |
Foreign-born and naturalized-citizen series are not separately reported in these datasets. Naturalized citizens are included in citizen counts and are not added to this graph. Data coverage →