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Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2019-2020

Statistics on crimes and offences recorded and cleared up by the police in Scotland, split by crime or offence group and by local authority.

Table 7: Crimes per 10,000 population, Scotland, 1971 to 2019-20

Footnote 11

	Rate per 10,000 population
Year	Non-sexual crimes of violence	Sexual crimes	Crimes of dishonesty	Fire-raising, vandalism, etc.	Other crimes*	Coronavirus restrictions	Total crimes	Population
1971	11	9	332	42	9		403	5,235,600
1972	11	8	329	48	11		406	5,230,600
1973	10	9	307	59	12		397	5,233,900
1974	11	8	355	59	12		446	5,240,800
1975 ¹²	14	8	434	70	12		538	5,232,400
1976	15	8	487	84	13		607	5,233,400
1977	16	8	555	102	14		695	5,226,200
1978	16	9	504	98	16		643	5,212,300
1979	15	9	517	108	17		666	5,203,600
1980	17	10	539	116	20		702	5,193,900
1981	18	9	618	119	24		788	5,180,200
1982	18	10	658	128	28		842	5,164,540
1983	19	11	665	142	28		865	5,148,120
1984	21	11	699	154	33		918	5,138,880
1985	22	11	668	155	37		893	5,127,890
1986	23	10	670	154	39		897	5,111,760
1987	27	10	699	150	41		928	5,099,020
1988	26	10	679	145	42		902	5,077,440
1989	27	11	700	156	48		942	5,078,190
1990	26	12	758	170	55		1,020	5,081,270
1991	31	11	846	177	62		1,127	5,083,330
1992	33	12	816	181	68		1,111	5,085,620
1993	28	12	736	165	74		1,016	5,092,460
1994	28	12	687	174	80		980	5,102,210
1995-96	29	11	626	174	97		937	5,103,690
1996-97	28	12	561	169	96		865	5,092,190
1997-98	26	15	525	159	103		828	5,083,340
1998-99	29	14	546	153	114		855	5,077,070
1999-00	31	12	543	160	112		859	5,071,950
2000-01	29	11	500	169	116		827	5,062,940
2001-02	31	12	480	187	132		842	5,064,200
2002-03	32	13	444	193	144		826	5,066,000
2003-04	30	13	416	205	153		817	5,068,500
2004-05	29	14	414	253	152		862	5,084,300
2005-06	27	13	367	250	160		818	5,110,200
2006-07	27	13	358	253	165		817	5,133,100
2007-08	25	13	322	228	157		746	5,170,000
2008-09	25	13	320	227	156		725	5,202,900
2009-10	24	12	321	209	155		646	5,231,900

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