The latest figures from Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) show that suspects from several migrant nationalities are significantly overrepresented in police crime statistics, with women from a number of foreign countries recording higher suspect rates than German men.
As first reported by Nius, the data, taken from the 2025 police crime statistics published last month, uses what the BKA calls the suspect burden rate, which measures the number of resident suspects per 100,000 people in the same population group, excluding children under the age of 8. The metric allows comparisons between different nationalities and between men and women while adjusting for population size.
