UK crime: Police recorded rape offences in England and Wales 2002-2018

The data displays the amount of police recorded rape offences in England and Wales from 2002/03 to 2017/18. Between 2002/03 and 2008/09 the number of rape offences fluctuated before beginning a year-on-year increase that continued to 2017/18. In the most recent recording year in this statistic, the number of offences that were recorded amounted to over 53 thousand.