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Legal Data Observatory

What is measured about law and justice, where, how recently, and by whom — and what is not.

Courts

IndicatorCountries with dataLatestSource
Lawyers per 100,000 population none held
Legal-aid spending per capita none held
People with an unresolved legal problem % of population none held
Population eligible for legal aid % of population none held
Self-represented civil litigants % of civil parties none held
Unrepresented defendants % of defendants none held
Appeals allowed % of appeals decided none held
Case clearance rate % of incoming cases none held
Conviction rate % of cases decided none held
Criminal cases filed cases none held
Criminal cases resolved cases none held
Median case duration days none held
Pending cases cases none held
Professional judges per 100,000 population 37 2024 Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice

In the Atlas: court-watchjustice-access

Justice transparency

Latest figure we hold for each country, with its year and source. Definitions differ between countries — compare with care, and read each source's notes.

IndicatorUnited KingdomFranceGermanySweden
Professional judges
per 100,000 population
no figure held 11.2 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice 26.3 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice 9.0 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice
Pending cases
cases
no figure held no figure held no figure held no figure held
Case clearance rate
% of incoming cases
no figure held no figure held no figure held no figure held
Median case duration
days
no figure held no figure held no figure held no figure held
Conviction rate
% of cases decided
no figure held no figure held no figure held no figure held
Police personnel
per 100,000 population
no figure held 361.3 2022 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice 320.4 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice 226.0 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice
Prison population rate
per 100,000 population
no figure held 117.5 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice 70.5 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice 106.5 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice
Prison occupancy
% of official capacity
no figure held 129.3 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice 81.6 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice 111.7 2024 · Eurostat — Crime and criminal justice
Pretrial detainees
% of prison population
no figure held no figure held no figure held no figure held
Legal-aid spending
per capita
no figure held no figure held no figure held no figure held

Court caseload, backlog and duration series are defined but no open source publishes them consistently yet; they stay empty rather than estimated.