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Legal Data Observatory

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

Family law

IndicatorCountries with dataLatestSource
Child abuse cases recorded per 100,000 children none held
Child homicide per 100,000 children none held
Child marriage before 15 % of women aged 20–24 140 2025 World Bank — World Development Indicators
Child marriage before 18 % of women aged 20–24 143 2025 World Bank — World Development Indicators
Children entering juvenile justice children none held
Children in alternative care per 100,000 children none held
Children in detention per 100,000 children none held
Children in employment % of children aged 7–14 97 2016 World Bank — World Development Indicators
Children in hazardous work % of children aged 5–17 none held
Completeness of birth registration % of children under 5 178 2022 World Bank — World Development Indicators
Domestic violence specifically criminalised yes / no none held
Domestic-violence convictions convictions none held
Domestic-violence prosecutions prosecutions none held
Female genital mutilation/cutting prevalence % of women aged 15–49 30 2023 World Bank — World Development Indicators
Gender-related killings of women and girls per 100,000 women none held
Intimate-partner violence in the last 12 months % of ever-partnered women aged 15–49 106 2017 World Bank — World Development Indicators
Non-partner sexual violence % of women none held
Protection orders issued orders none held
Protection-order breaches recorded breaches none held
Shelter places for survivors per 10,000 women none held

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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.