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Police-reported crime severity indexes, Canada, 2001 to 2021

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index (2006=100) 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 105 110 115 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 Crime Severity IndexCrime Severity Index Violent Crime Severity IndexViolent Crime Severity Index Non-violent Crime Severity IndexNon-violent Crime Severity Index
Note(s):
Crime Severity Indexes are based on Criminal Code incidents, including traffic offences, as well as other federal statute violations. The base index was set at 100 for 2006 for Canada. Populations are based upon July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.
Source(s):
Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (3302).

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Police-reported crime severity indexes, Canada, 2001 to 2021, index (2006=100)
  Crime Severity Index Violent Crime Severity Index Non-violent Crime Severity Index
2001 105.3 97.2 108.4
2002 104.1 96.2 107.2
2003 106.8 97.6 110.4
2004 104.1 96.0 107.2
2005 101.3 98.5 102.4
2006 100.0 100.0 100.0
2007 95.3 97.8 94.3
2008 90.6 95.1 88.9
2009 87.8 94.3 85.3
2010 82.9 89.2 80.5
2011 77.6 85.7 74.5
2012 75.5 82.0 73.0
2013 68.9 74.0 66.9
2014 66.9 70.7 65.4
2015 70.4 75.3 68.4
2016 72.0 76.9 70.1
2017 73.6 81.3 70.7
2018 75.6 83.6 72.6
2019 79.8 90.3 75.8
2020 73.9 88.0 68.7
2021 73.7 92.5 66.7
Note(s):
Crime Severity Indexes are based on Criminal Code incidents, including traffic offences, as well as other federal statute violations. The base index was set at 100 for 2006 for Canada. Populations are based upon July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.
Source(s):
Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (3302).
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