98.5% of refugees and their reunified family in Denmark do not commit crimes. This means that only a small fraction of the group does commit crimes, and that number has been declining in recent years. The group is still overrepresented in crime statistics compared to ethnic Danes*, but there are a number of possible explanations for this, which will be discussed below.
Danish citizens commit 8 out of 10 crimes in Denmark and crime rates among non-Western citizens has declined for the past 20 years