202 per 10,000: Dutch Crime Suspect Rate Triples for Non-Western Origins
September 26, 2026 · Frisian News
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Statistics Netherlands recorded 202 crime suspects per 10,000 residents with a non-western migration background in 2022, against 61 for people of Dutch background. A gang-rape case has renewed scrutiny of the figures.
202. That is how many residents per 10,000 with a non-western migration background were registered as crime suspects in the Netherlands in 2022, according to Statistics Netherlands (CBS). For people of Dutch background, the figure was 61.
The CBS table on cbs.nl covers all registered crime suspects, not sexual offences alone. Each person counts once per year regardless of how many offences they face. The national average across all backgrounds sits at 83 per 10,000. People with any migration background were recorded at 150. Those with a western migration background came in at 86, just above the national average. The non-western rate of 202 is more than three times the Dutch-background figure.
Variation within the non-western category runs sharp. CBS records people with a background from the former Dutch Antilles and Aruba at 357 suspects per 10,000, Angola at 354, Somalia at 344, the Dominican Republic at 320, and Sierra Leone at 320. Morocco registers 295, Algeria 273, Tunisia 272. The rates for Iraq (196), Syria (191), and Egypt (181) sit below the non-western average but remain well above the Dutch-background rate of 61.
The picture is not uniform across all migrant groups. CBS data place people of Chinese background at 46 suspects per 10,000, Indian at 45, Indonesian at 47, and Japanese at 19, all below the Dutch-background rate. Germany comes in at 55, below the national average of 83. The Dominican Republic rate is roughly seven times the Chinese-background rate. Origin matters, but the direction and size of the gap depends entirely on which country you examine.
CBS notes that the 2022 figures are provisional, representing a slight undercount of the eventual totals. The agency also notes that people without a Dutch residential registration are included in the absolute suspect counts but not in the per-10,000 rate.
A separate CBS dataset, listed on data.overheid.nl and covering 1999 to 2022, breaks suspects down by crime type alongside migration background. That table was frozen in February 2024. The all-crime table at cbs.nl was closed at the same time. An independent analysis on thaumatorium.com, drawing on the same CBS source, notes that the per-10,000 rate uses only residents in the Dutch population register as its denominator, which affects how groups with significant unregistered populations appear in the relative figures.
The Dutch government publishes these numbers. The specific tables cited here were frozen in February 2024; CBS published new replacement tables at the same time.
Published September 26, 2026 · Frisian News