Denmark | HCRW

Denmark regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. Hate crime statistics are regularly published on the Danish National Police website.

The Ministry of Justice conducts annual victimization surveys to measure unreported hate crimes. The Danish National Police regularly engages in dialogue on hate crime with a number of community stakeholders.

SELECT YEAR

Download the 2015 hate crime report for Denmark

OFFICIAL DATA REPORTED BY STATES

Year	Hate crimes recorded by police	Prosecuted	Sentenced
2023	Not available	Not available	Not available
2022	212	Not available	22
2021	409	14	33
2020	635	Not available	Not available
2019	469	-	-
2018	449	-	-
2017	446	Not available	Not available
2016	274	Not available	Not available
2015	198	Not available	Not available
2014	Not available	Not available	Not available
2013	110	Not available	Not available
2012	320	0	0
2011	384	0	0
2010	334	0	0
2009	306	5	1

About 2015 Data

Official figure includes six cases of hate speech.

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National developments

The Danish National Police took over the responsibility for collecting data on hate crime in 2015, which is reported annually. The first report was published in June 2016.

KEY OBSERVATION

ODIHR observes that Denmark has not reported to ODIHR the numbers of prosecuted and sentenced hate crime cases.

Incidents reported by civil society, international organizations and the Holy See

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Reports

Anti-Semitic hate crime

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Human Rights First, the Jewish Community in Denmark (AKVAH), and the Kantor Center reported the murder of a Jewish security guard protecting a synagogue and one incident of vandalism in which a kosher restaurant was defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti. AKVAH also reported the attempted murder of two Jewish teenagers, two physical assaults on women, four threats and two incidents of vandalism, one of which involved graffiti.

INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

In its "Concluding observations on the combined twentieth and twenty-first periodic reports of Denmark", the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) recommended that a national action plan on racism be developed, with a particular focus on combating hate crimes.