Poland among three safest EU countries

Only 4.4 percent of Poles reported crimes, violence, or vandalism in their area in 2019, according to statistics published on Wednesday by the European Statistical Office (Eurostat). This is one of the lowest rates in the EU. Only Lithuania and Croatia are lower.

In our Baltic neighbors, crimes in their area were reported by 3.2 percent of the population, and on the Adriatic by only 2.7 percent. The EU average is 11 percent.

If this statistic is treated as a measure of general safety, then the least safe places are Bulgaria (20.2 percent), Greece (16.9 percent), and the Netherlands (16.3 percent).

Above the European average are also, among others, France, where in 2019 as many as 14.7 percent of inhabitants alerted the police in relation to crimes in the immediate vicinity, inhabitants, Belgium (13.3 percent), and Germany (13.1 percent).

(PAP)