Non-citizen crime trends
Recorded justice outcomes over the years.
This dataset reports all offences together; an offence-by-nationality breakdown is not available here. Choose another dataset above for the available offence categories.
All reported offences
Spain · Police suspects
Data 2014–2024 · Source retrieved 17 Sept 2026
Retrieval confirms when the source was collected, not that the underlying figures describe today.
Published 29 Apr 2026 · Retrieved 17 Sept 2026
Source period: 2014-01-01–2024-12-31
Release schedule: Annual; check for updates weekly.
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.
Foreign citizens over time
2014–2024These are recorded suspects, not findings of guilt or convictions.
Definitions & limitations
All offences covered by the national source, including immigration offences where recorded. These are citizenship categories. They cannot identify immigrants or unauthorized residents. National definitions differ; do not rank countries by these counts.
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 | Foreign citizens · people | Source notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 · calendar year | 216,740 | — |
| 2023 · calendar year | 196,562 | — |
| 2022 · calendar year | 171,761 | — |
| 2021 · calendar year | 144,730 | — |
| 2020 · calendar year | 130,620 | — |
| 2019 · calendar year | 123,010 | — |
| 2018 · calendar year | 113,340 | — |
| 2017 · calendar year | 104,810 | — |
| 2016 · calendar year | 102,888 | — |
| 2015 · calendar year | 104,416 | — |
| 2014 · calendar year | 103,781 | — |
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 →