Chapter of Penal Code and some kind of crimes | Total | Penalties imposed | |||||
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Imprisonment | Life imprison-ment | Life imprisonment without parole | Fine | Probation | Others | ||
Total | 23 389 | 18 787 | 1 | - | 1392 | 3029 | 180 |
Crimes against the Republic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Crimes against the person | 1 511 | 1 011 | 1 | - | 52 | 435 | 12 |
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Homicide (committed) | 57 | 56 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Homicide (attempted) | 25 | 25 | - | - | - | - | - |
Bodily harm | 706 | 434 | - | - | 5 | 257 | 10 |
Kidnapping and illegal constraint | 40 | 37 | - | - | - | 3 | - |
Compulsion | 316 | 191 | - | - | - | 124 | 1 |
Insult and libel | 27 | - | - | - | 26 | 1 | - |
Depravity | 205 | 177 | - | - | - | 27 | 1 |
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Debauchery | 76 | 75 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
Rape (committed and attempted) | 40 | 40 | - | - | - | - | - |
Pandering and abduction for debauchery | 12 | 11 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
Forced to homosexual action | 14 | 14 | - | - | - | - | - |
Traffic of people | 29 | 29 | - | - | - | - | - |
Crimes against the rights of the citizens | 210 | 140 | - | - | - | 69 | 1 |
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Infringing the inviolability of a home, premises or vehicle | 64 | 62 | - | - | - | 2 | - |
Crimes against the intellectual property | 114 | 47 | - | - | - | 67 | - |
Crimes against marriage, family and youth | 642 | 274 | - | - | 39 | 328 | 1 |
of which: | |||||||
Crimes against the marriage and family | 441 | 124 | - | - | 34 | 283 | - |
of which: Non-payment of alimony | 428 | 119 | - | - | 33 | 276 | - |
Crimes against the youth | 201 | 150 | - | - | 5 | 45 | 1 |
Crimes against the property | 5 480 | 4 401 | - | - | 128 | 849 | 102 |
of which: | |||||||
Theft | 3 831 | 3 047 | - | - | 67 | 638 | 79 |
Robbery | 571 | 522 | - | - | - | 42 | 7 |
Misappropriation | 118 | 91 | - | - | - | 27 | - |
Embezzlement | 136 | 114 | - | - | 5 | 17 | - |
Fraud | 460 | 445 | - | - | 1 | 14 | - |
of which: Documentary fraud | 31 | 31 | - | - | - | - | - |
Extortion | 30 | 30 | - | - | - | - | - |
Constructive theft | 40 | 37 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 |
Destruction and damaging | 242 | 112 | - | - | 10 | 110 | 10 |
Crimes against the economy | 1 474 | 1 014 | - | - | 62 | 395 | 3 |
of which: | |||||||
General property offences | 7 | 6 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
of which: Crimes against public property | 5 | 4 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
Crimes against the creditors | 14 | 1 | - | - | 12 | 1 | - |
Crimes against individual economic branches | 1 072 | 638 | - | - | 43 | 388 | 3 |
Crimes against the customs regime | 73 | 73 | - | - | - | - | - |
Crimes against the monetary and credit system | 304 | 292 | - | - | 7 | 5 | - |
Crimes against the financial, tax and insurance system | 95 | 88 | - | - | - | 7 | - |
of which: Crimes against the taxation | 78 | 71 | - | - | - | 7 | - |
Crimes against the activity of state bodies, public organizations and persons performing public duties | 1 239 | 960 | - | - | 111 | 166 | 2 |
of which: | |||||||
Crimes against the order governing | 903 | 737 | - | - | 78 | 86 | 2 |
of which: | |||||||
Illegal crossing of the boundary | 578 | 565 | - | - | - | 12 | 1 |
Bringing of persons across the boundary | 92 | 92 | - | - | - | - | - |
Crimes at work | 7 | 6 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
Crimes against the Justice | 173 | 81 | - | - | 33 | 59 | - |
Bribery | 108 | 88 | - | - | - | 20 | - |
Crimes against sports | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Documentary crimes | 747 | 481 | - | - | 41 | 222 | 3 |
Computer crimes | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Crimes against the order and public peace | 643 | 422 | - | - | 8 | 212 | 1 |
of which: Hooliganism | 399 | 216 | - | - | 3 | 179 | 1 |
Generally dangerous crime | 11 344 | 9 993 | - | - | 951 | 345 | 55 |
of which: | |||||||
Crimes committed in a generally dangerous way or by generally dangerous means | 332 | 320 | - | - | 6 | 6 | - |
of which: | |||||||
Arson | 67 | 61 | - | - | - | 6 | - |
Illegal production, possessing and use of weapon, explosion and ammunition | 265 | 259 | - | - | 6 | - | - |
Crimes against the transport and communications | 8 472 | 7 752 | - | - | 444 | 258 | 18 |
Theft of motor vehicle | 177 | 137 | - | - | - | 28 | 12 |
Drug-related crimes | 2 343 | 1 773 | - | - | 499 | 46 | 25 |
Crimes against the defensive capacity of the republic, the information representing a state secret and against the foreign classified information | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Military crimes | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
Crimes against the peace and humanity | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Persons convicted by chapters of penal code and some kind of crimes and by penalties imposed

Contact | |
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Contact organisation | National Statistical Institute |
Contact organisation unit | „Health Care and Justice Statistics“ Department |
Contact name | Adriana Tetevenska |
Contact person function | State expert |
Contact mail address | 2, P. Volov Str.; 1038 Sofia, Bulgaria |
Contact email address | |
Contact phone number | +359 2 9857 592 |
Contact fax number | |
Metadata update | |
Metadata last certified | 16 July 2020 |
Metadata last posted | 16 July 2020 |
Metadata last update | 16 July 2020 |
Statistical presentation | |
Data description | Statistics of Crimes, accused and convicted persons statistics ensures comparable data on crimes, accused persons and persons convicted according to results of proceedings; the number of crimes with penalty inflicted by some kind and accussed and convicted persons. Data are presented by some kinds of crimes (according to the Penal Code), year of committment, age and sex, number of perpetrators, number of crimes, kind and size of penalties imposed. |
Classification system |
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Sector coverage | Cover aspects of the activity of Organisational units of the Ministry of Interior, National Investigation Office, Prosecution Office of the Republic of Bulgaria, Ministry of Defence, Customs agency and State agency „National Security“ and regional, district and martial courts, acting within the territory of the country. |
Statistical concepts and definitions | The number of crimes and persons convicted for certain reference year includes those with sentence that has come into force during the same year. Persons convicted, conditionally sentenced persons, as well as acquitted persons, persons released from punishment, and persons against whom legal proceedings have been terminated are included in the total number of defendants. Persons convicted with all kinds of inflicted penalty, including conditionally sentenced persons are included in the total number of persons convicted. The crimes concluded with penalty inflicted include all crimes with inflicted penalty regardless they had been committed by one or more persons. In case of complicity, a crime is considered to have been concluded with penalty inflicted if even when only one of the defendants has been convicted or conditionally sentenced. A crime committed in complicity ends with acquittal in case when all persons have been acquitted. Penal proceedings in case of a crime are considered to have been terminated with the termination of legal proceedings against the perpetrator or all perpetrators. Preparation of crimes is included in the total number of attempted crimes. In case of the conviction of a person for a number of crimes, data on the penalty inflicted on the person are provided for the most serious punishable offence, and data on each individual crime ? according to the respective type of crime. If according to the verdict in each case penal proceedings concerning these crimes have been concluded with an inflicted penalty, a conditional sentence, acquittal or termination of proceedings, data on each crime are provided under the respective verdict. For instance, if a person had committed robbery of property, theft of property and fraud - a person has been convicted for the first two crimes, and acquitted for the third one. The person is considered convicted for robbery of property (the most serious punishable offence), while data on crimes have been reported according to the respective type of crime: the first one - as a robbery of property; the second one - as theft of property; and the third one - as fraud ended by acquittal. In case a number of persons commit a crime, data on the crime itself are provided only once, while those concerning each perpetrator are given depending on the respective verdict. The total number of defendants and persons convicted does not coincide with the actual number of defendants and persons convicted, as for the duration of the reporting year a person may appear a number of times as a defendant or person convicted. In terms of the territorial distribution of persons convicted, the place of committing the most serious punishable offence is taken into account or the area of the last committed crime. As regards the continuing crime the territorial distribution is made by taking into account the last actions. Crimes committed abroad and subject to the jurisdiction of Courts in the Republic of Bulgaria are included in the total number of crimes. Data about crimes with penalty inflicted and persons convicted are given by districts, municipalities, cities and villages in accordance with the administrative-territorial division of the country according to the place of committing a crime. All socio-economic indicators characterizing persons convicted refer to the moment of committing a crime. The age of persons convicted is given in completed years. Persons who have completed 14, but not 18 years are considered as juveniles. In cases when the person convicted has committed more than one crime, the table about imposed penalties indicates the penalty on an aggregate. Convicted juvenile persons are included in the total number of persons convicted in spite of data on juveniles are differentiated. Crimes for which an amnesty has been granted by virtue of amnesty laws adopted by the National Assembly in May, November and December (published respectively in State Gazette?, No. No. 37, 91 and 99/1990) are not included in the data on crimes and persons convicted. Since 2008 to 2016 data on crimes and persons convicted are obtained on the basis of the NSI statistical survey data and data from administrative source (the Unified Information System for Counteraction to Criminality). |
Statistical unit | The survey object is the activity of the regional and district courts on penal trials of general, private and administrative character. Since 1998 the information for the activity of military courts and since 2012 – from the Specialized criminal court is also included. The information about the activity of Supreme Court of Cassation is not included. Surveyed units are crimes, concluded with penalty inflicted and persons convicted with sentences come into force. |
Statistical population | Comprehensive survey. Covers all regional, district and martial courts, acting within the territory of the country. |
Reference area | The Republic of Bulgaria's territory. |
Time coverage | 2010 - 2019 |
Base period | Not applicable. |
Unit of measure | |
Number. | |
Reference period | |
Calendar Year. | |
Institutional mandate | |
Legal acts and other agreements |
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Data sharing | Not applicable. |
Confidentiality | |
Confidentiality - policy |
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Confidentiality - data treatment | Individual data are not published in accordance with article 25 of the Law on Statistics. The publishing of individual data can be performed only in accordance with article 26 of the same law. |
Release policy | |
Release calendar | Statistical information publication date is indicated in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. Data are disseminated once in the year. |
Release calendar access | The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg |
User access | Data on Crimes, accused and persons convicted is published on the NSI website, section Justice and crime in accordance with the Law on Statistics and the European Statistics Code of Practice respecting the professional independence and aimed at objectivity, transparency and equal treatment of all consumers. |
Frequency of dissemination | |
Annually. | |
Accessibility and clarity | |
News release | Every year as the date is indicated in the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. |
Publications |
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On-line database | Data on Crimes, accused and persons convicted are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Justice: http://www.nsi.bg |
Micro-data access | Anonymised individual data can be provide for scientific and research purposes, and for individual request according to the Rules for the provision of anonymised individual data for scientific and research purposes. |
Other | Information service on request, according to the Rules for the dissemination of statistical products and services in NSI. |
Documentation on methodology | The data are provided by all Organisational units of the Ministry of Interior, National Investigation Office, Prosecution Office of the Republic of Bulgaria, Ministry of Defence and regional, district and martial courts, acting within the territory of the country in line with pre-defined procedure and quality data's ensuring. |
Quality documentation | In accordance with established criterion on statistical data quality. |
Quality management | |
Quality assurance | Quality criterion are ensured. |
Quality assessment | An assessment is carried out in the NSI. |
Relevance | |
User needs | Needs are conditioned by necessities of the criminality prevention policy in the country and society need of information on trends in the field of punished criminality. |
User satisfaction | Regular assessment of needs and ways for their satisfaction is made. |
Completeness | Data cover all Chapters of the Penal Code. |
Accuracy and reliability | |
Overall accuracy | Not applicable. |
Sampling error | Not applicable. |
Non-sampling error | Not applicable. |
Timeliness and punctuality | |
Timeliness | T+6 months. |
Punctuality | Data are disseminated according to the Release Calendar timelines. |
Coherence and comparability | |
Comparability - geographical | Data are comparable. |
Comparability - over time | Data are comparable. |
Coherence - cross domain | Data are coherent. |
Coherence - internal | Data are coherent. |
Cost and burden | |
The main burden is on the organisational units of the Ministry of Interior, National Investigation Office, Prosecution Office of the Republic of Bulgaria, Ministry of Defence, Customs agency and State agency „National Security“ and regional, district and martial courts, acting within the territory of the country and the NSI's staff - in RSOs and Central office. | |
Data revision | |
Data revision - policy | Not applicable. |
Data revision - practice | Not applicable. |
Statistical processing | |
Source data | Organisational units of the Ministry of Interior, National Investigation Office, Prosecution Office of the Republic of Bulgaria, Ministry of Defence, Customs agency and State agency „National Security“ and regional, district and martial courts, acting within the territory of the country. |
Frequency of data collection | Annually. |
Data collection | Comprehensive survey through filling in the statistical questionaire „Card for accused person (1-СС)“ by the bodies of pre-judical and judical processing and data from administrativa source - the Unified Information System for Counteraction to Criminality.
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Data validation | In the NSI at the national level. |
Data compilation | Data are processed in the Central Statistical Office at the national level. |
Adjustment | Not applicable. |
Comment |
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Thursday, 16 July 2020 - 11:00
The trials of 24 962 committed crimes were ended with penalties (effective and conditional) in 2019. Persons convicted with penalties inflicted in 2019 were 23 389.
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Thursday, 23 April 2020 - 11:00
The number of minors and juveniles registered in the Child pedagogic rooms for anti-social acts and crimes commitment in 2019 was 9 167. In comparison with 2018, their number increased by 69 or by 0.8%.
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Tuesday, 16 July 2019 - 11:00
The trials of 25 165 committed crimes were ended with penalties (effective and conditional) in 2018. Persons convicted with penalties inflicted in 2018 were 23 973.
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Friday, 19 April 2019 - 11:00
The number of minors and juveniles registered in the Child pedagogic rooms for anti-social acts and crimes commitment in 2018 was 9 098. In comparison with 2017 their number decreased by 48 or by 0.5%.
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Monday, 16 July 2018 - 11:00
The trials of 26 753 committed crimes were ended with penalties (effective and conditional) in 2017. Persons convicted with penalties inflicted in 2017 were 25 800.
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Friday, 20 April 2018 - 11:00
The number of minors and juveniles registered in the Child pedagogic rooms for anti-social acts and crimes commitment in 2017 was 9 146. In comparison with 2016 their number increased by 50 or by 0.6%.
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Friday, 14 July 2017 - 11:00
The trials of 28 119 committed crimes were ended with penalties (effective and conditional) in 2016. Persons convicted with penalties inflicted in 2016 were 28 301.
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Thursday, 20 April 2017 - 11:00
The number of minors and juveniles registered in the Child pedagogic rooms for anti-social acts and crimes commitment in 2016 was 9 096. In comparison with 2015 their number decreased by 500 or 5.2%.
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Friday, 15 July 2016 - 11:00
The trials of 26 423 committed crimes were ended with penalties (effective and conditionally). That was 8.5% less in comparison with 2014. The number of persons convicted with penalties came into force was 27 787 in 2015. Compared to 2014 a decrease by 12.8% was observed.
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Wednesday, 20 April 2016 - 11:00
The number of minors and juveniles registered in the Child pedagogic rooms for anti-social acts and crimes commitment in 2015 was 9 596. In comparison with 2014 their number decreased by 10.9%.
Pages
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Crimes and Persons Convicted 2019
The NSI annual electronic bilingual publication of the NSI Crimes and Persons Convicted 2019, containing data on crimes with penalty inflicted, accused persons and persons convicted is available for users of statistical information.
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Statistical Reference Book 2020
The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information the annual publication - Statistical Reference Book 2020 in English.
The Statistical Reference Book presents topical information on the demographic processes as well as the economic, social and cultural development of the Republic of Bulgaria for the 2016 - 2019 period.
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Statistical Reference Book 2020 (Bulgarian version)
The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information the annual publication - Statistical Reference Book 2020 in Bulgarian.
The Statistical Reference Book presents topical information on the demographic processes as well as the economic, social and cultural development of the Republic of Bulgaria for the 2016 - 2019 period.
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Bulgaria 2020
The National Statistical Institute presents the bilingual (Bulgarian/English) brochure Bulgaria 2020 to users of statistical information. The brochure is addressed to a wide range of users (international institutions, business, students, experts etc.) and changes the traditional presentation of statistical information by offering an innovative structure with a parallel translation in English. The publication contains topical statistical information about the demographic, social and economic development of the country over the 2014 - 2019 period.
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Statistical Yearbook 2019
The National Statistical Institute (NSI) has the pleasure to present to the attention of national and foreign users of statistical information the 87th edition of the ‘Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Bulgaria’ in printed and electronic format.
It provides current statistical information about the demographic, economic and social development of the country for 2013 - 2018 in different territorial and classification aggregations and breakdowns.
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Crimes and Persons Convicted 2018
The NSI annual electronic bilingual publication of the NSI Crimes and Persons Convicted 2018, containing data on crimes with penalty inflicted, accused persons and persons convicted is available for users of statistical information.
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Statistical Yearbook 2018 in infographics
The National Statistical Institute presents to your attention the 86th edition of the Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Bulgaria in infographics.
In 2018, for the first time, we presented the results of the statistical surveys through graphics, images and other visualization tools, which resulted in a positive response among a wide range of users. We believe that this modern way of presenting statistical information will trigger the interest in those who for the first time encounter the meaning of numbers revealing important aspects of socio-economic life.
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Statistical Reference Book 2019
The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information the annual publication - Statistical Reference Book 2019 in English.
The Statistical Reference Book presents topical information on the demographic processes as well as the economic, social and cultural development of the Republic of Bulgaria for the 2015 - 2018 period.
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Statistical Reference Book 2019 (Bulgarian version)
The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information the annual publication - Statistical Reference Book 2019 in Bulgarian.
The Statistical Reference Book presents topical information on the demographic processes as well as the economic, social and cultural development of the Republic of Bulgaria for the 2015 - 2018 period.
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Statistical Yearbook 2018
The National Statistical Institute (NSI) has the pleasure to present to the attention of national and foreign users of statistical information the 86th edition of the ‘Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Bulgaria’ in printed and electronic format.
It provides current statistical information about the demographic, economic and social development of the country for 2012 - 2017 in different territorial and classification aggregations and breakdowns.
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