"The data, showing that the UK reported 109 rapes per 100,000 people, comes from World Population Review. The figures are drawn from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). They also warn, "the challenges of cross-national comparability are considerable." However, the site itself warns readers to be cautious, noting the "apples-to-oranges nature of international rape statistics" due to major differences in legal definitions, reporting practices, and cultural factors."
""It's taken from a source and used in a way that the source literally says, 'don't do this because it's not accurate,'" said Tanya Serisier, lecturer in criminology at the Birkbeck University of London and author of "Speaking Out: Feminism, Rape and Narrative Politics," in an interview with DW. Why are the numbers misleading? The figures are accurately cited from World Population Review as of this summer. They have since been updated to 117 rapes per 100,000 people up from 25 per 100,000 in 2003."
A widely shared bar chart presented a UK rape rate of 109 per 100,000 people for 2022, based on World Population Review figures drawn from UNODC. World Population Review and UNODC warn that cross-national comparisons of rape statistics are unreliable because of differing legal definitions, reporting practices, and cultural influences. The UK figure has risen from about 25 per 100,000 in 2003 to around 100 between 2018 and 2020 and was updated to 117 per 100,000. Direct country-to-country ranking using those numbers can therefore mislead and distort the underlying realities.
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