Iceland: sexual crimes 2023

In 2023, the number of sexual crimes had decreased from the previous year by more than a hundred cases. 2013 had the largest number of violations, with 724 such reported crimes.

Number of registered sexual violations in Iceland from 2010 to 2023

Characteristic	Number of registered violations
2010	325
2011	360
2012	365
2013	724
2014	424
2015	446
2016	501
2017	482
2018	570
2019	672
2020	535
2021	661
2022	634
2023	521

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2024

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Iceland

Survey time period

2010 to 2023

Supplementary notes

In this statistic, sexual crime is categorized into rape, sexual offenses against children, violations of shame, sexual harassment and violations of sexual privacy, sex work, pictures, videos, and other material relating to children, other, and pornography.

In Iceland, purchasing sex is illegal and so is printing and distributing pornography. During 2013 and 2019, the police instigated different initiatives to deal with sex work, hence the increased number of crimes reported in those years.

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