Rape against a child under 15
- Legal basis
- 6 kap. 4 § brottsbalken
- Latest figure
- 2,521
- Year
- 2025
- Reported from
- 2016
Brott & rättsväsende · officiell statistik
Anmälda sexualbrott mot barn i Sverige, brottstyp för brottstyp, direkt ur Brås officiella kriminalstatistik. Varje serie bär sitt lagrum, sin definition och sina dokumenterade brytpunkter. Sidan innehåller inga uppgifter om enskilda personer.
Source: Brå — 10La_anm_10_ar.xlsx, publicerad 2026-03-31. Retrieved 2026-09-12.
Each figure is the number of offences reported and registered during the year — not the number of committed offences, suspects or convictions. The series must not be added together: the same report can appear in several rows.
Rape against a child under 15
2,521
Reported offences 2025 · 6 kap. 4 § brottsbalken
Observed · Brå, final annual statistics · verified 2026-09-12
Sexual assault against a child
896
Reported offences 2025 · 6 kap. 6 § brottsbalken
Observed · Brå, final annual statistics · verified 2026-09-12
Exploitation of a child under 18 for sexual posing
1,767
Reported offences 2025 · 6 kap. 8 § brottsbalken
Observed · Brå, final annual statistics · verified 2026-09-12
Contact with a child for sexual purposes
175
Reported offences 2025 · 6 kap. 10 a § brottsbalken
Observed · Brå, final annual statistics · verified 2026-09-12
2016–2025 · reported offences · Sweden
Reported offences per year registered as Rape against a child under 15 (6 kap. 4 § brottsbalken). A reported offence is not the same as a committed or proven offence.
Rape against a child under 15: Reported offences moves from 2,166 (2016) to 2,521 (2025) — up 355 reported offences. Full values are available in the data table below (2016–2025, Sverige). The series is broken at 2018, 2022 — values before and after the break are not directly comparable. Den 1 juli 2018 trädde den nya sexualbrottslagstiftningen (samtyckeslagen) i kraft. Brås tabell redovisar samtidigt nya brottstyper (oaktsam våldtäkt, oaktsamt sexuellt övergrepp) från 2018–2019, vilket påverkar jämförbarheten inom 6 kap.
| Year | Reported offences |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 2,166 |
| 2017 | 2,133 |
| 2018 | 2,295 |
| 2019 | 2,441 |
| 2020 | 2,988 |
| 2021 | 2,639 |
| 2022 | 3,086 |
| 2023 | 2,641 |
| 2024 | 3,025 |
| 2025 | 2,521 |
Observed published official statistics with no processing of our own
Series break 2018: Den 1 juli 2018 trädde den nya sexualbrottslagstiftningen (samtyckeslagen) i kraft. Brås tabell redovisar samtidigt nya brottstyper (oaktsam våldtäkt, oaktsamt sexuellt övergrepp) från 2018–2019, vilket påverkar jämförbarheten inom 6 kap. (Brå)
Series break 2022: Brå: ”Våldtäkt mot flicka under 15 år – i maj 2022 registrerades ett enskilt ärende i region Öst som omfattade ca 500 brott.” Enstaka stora ärenden kan ensamma förklara nivåskiften. (Brå)
Method: Row identified by the exact pair (legal basis, offence type) in Brå's table: "6 kap. 1, 4 § BrB Våldtäkt inkl. grov, våldtäkt mot barn inkl. grov" / "Mot barn under 15 år, totalt". Values are read machine-to-machine without recalculation. Years where the source reports no figure are shown as "–", never as zero.
Source: Brå, Anmälda brott, table 10La_anm_10_ar.xlsx (source published 2026-03-31 · accessed 2026-09-12 · verified 2026-09-12)
Comparability
Source: Brå, Anmälda brott (officiell kriminalstatistik) · 10La_anm_10_ar.xlsx · 2026-03-31 · retrieved 2026-09-12 · observed value from the source
Reported offences for the latest year each series is reported. "–" means the source reports no figure — never zero. The column "reported from" shows the first year Brå reports the row; earlier years belong to another row structure and must not be chained.
| Offence type | Legal basis | Latest figure | Year | Reported from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rape against a child under 15 | 6 kap. 4 § brottsbalken | 2,521 | 2025 | 2016 |
| Rape against a child aged 15–17 | 6 kap. 1 och 4 §§ brottsbalken | 1,281 | 2025 | 2016 |
| Sexual assault against a child | 6 kap. 6 § brottsbalken | 896 | 2025 | 2019 |
| Sexual exploitation of a child | 6 kap. 5 § brottsbalken | 124 | 2025 | 2019 |
| Exploitation of a child under 18 for sexual posing | 6 kap. 8 § brottsbalken | 1,767 | 2025 | 2016 |
| Purchase of a sexual act from a child under 18 | 6 kap. 9 § brottsbalken | 136 | 2025 | 2016 |
| Other sexual molestation against a child under 15 | 6 kap. 10 § brottsbalken | 3,115 | 2025 | 2016 |
| Other sexual molestation against a child aged 15–17 | 6 kap. 10 § brottsbalken | 1,549 | 2025 | 2016 |
| Contact with a child for sexual purposes | 6 kap. 10 a § brottsbalken | 175 | 2025 | 2016 |
| Child pornography offences | 16 kap. 10 a § brottsbalken | 10,594 | 2025 | 2016 |
Comparability
Quoted verbatim from Brå's table file. They are reproduced here because they are necessary to read the figures correctly.
This page deliberately shows no funnel from reports to convictions. Reported offences (Brå), suspected persons, prosecutions and court decisions are counted in different systems, with different units (offences vs. persons), different reference years and different delimitations. Dividing one by the other produces a number that means nothing.
Each stage will be published separately, with its own unit and its own source, when every figure has been verified against the primary source. Until then no stage figure is published here.
Status: not yet published (pending verification).
Extracts from the criminal records register are issued by the Swedish Police. Schools and preschools have a statutory duty to check; other activities involving children may request an extract but the rules differ. The Police describe which extract applies in each case.
Sverigefakta publishes no register of individuals and links only to the authority's own service.
The file is discovered from Brå's own statistics page, checksummed, parsed row by row on the exact pair (legal basis, offence type), validated and compared with the last known good file before anything is written. If any step fails, nothing is written and the previous verified data remains.
Nej. Statistiken mäter anmälningar som registrerats hos polis, tull eller åklagare. Nivån påverkas av anmälningsbenägenhet, lagändringar, polisens egna insatser och av hur många brott ett enskilt ärende delas upp i. Anmälda brott kan därför öka utan att antalet begångna brott ökar — och tvärtom.
Brå redovisar inte alla brottstyper alla år. När källan anger att uppgift saknas visas ”–” här. Saknad uppgift skrivs aldrig om till noll.
Samma anmälan kan ingå i flera redovisade rader, och raderna avgränsar brottsoffrets ålder på olika sätt. En egen summa skulle dubbelräkna. Därför publiceras varje brottstyp för sig.
Brå anger i källfilen att det under våren 2023 registrerades stora mängder anmälda barnpornografibrott till följd av en särskild insats, och att brotten härrör från flera års tid. Nivån det året speglar alltså en registreringsinsats, inte ett jämförbart års brottslighet.
Nej. Sverigefakta publicerar inga uppgifter om namngivna personer och inga kartor över personer. Sidan redovisar aggregerad officiell statistik för hela riket.
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