Cyprus averages four car thefts a day, survey shows

Cyprus averages 149 car thefts per 100,000 people each year or four a day, confused.com – a UK digital marketplace for insurance, has reported citing Eurostat data.

The platform conducted a study identifying Europe’s car theft trends by looking at Eurostat data for the years 2011-2019. Car theft rates were then aggregated by population estimates to calculate the average number of car thefts per 100,000 inhabitants, and the results were then ranked in descending order.

Italy tops the list with the highest car theft rate in Europe, averaging 276 thefts per 100,000 people. The second worst country is Czechia averaging 274 thefts per 100,0000 but only numbering 79 thefts per day.

France had the highest number of thefts per day recording 474 reports/day, that is 20 thefts each hour or three every minute, ranked fourth on the list with 261 thefts per 100,000 people.

Greece, the fifth most unsafe country in relation to car theft, has 255 thefts per 100,000 each year and 76 per day.

Cyprus, placed eighth among 15 countries on the list, averages 149 car thefts per 100,000 people each year.

Denmark, experiences 96 per cent fewer car thefts than Cyprus does, with just five car thefts per 100,000. It has the least number of thefts each year and Danish car owners are the least likely to experience a theft amongst all Europeans.

Averaging 14 thefts per 1000,000 Romania is second best, followed by Lichtenstein and Croatia both averaging 22 thefts per 100,000 each year, that is, 85 per cent less than Cyprus.