According to data provided by the Crime Statistics and Crime Analysis Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, crime cases decreased in the Republic of Armenia in 2025. Prosecutor General of the RA Anna Vardapetyan stated this today at the National Assembly of the RA, informing that during 2025, 40,722 crimes[1] were committed in the Republic of Armenia (42,057 in 2024), whereof 18,857 were committed in the city of Yerevan (19,877 in 2024). Compared to 2024, the number of crimes in 2025 decreased by 1,335 cases or 3.2%.

It should be recalled that Prosecutor General of the RA Anna Vardapetyan, in accordance with the constitutional law “Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly,” today presented to the Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs of the National Assembly of the RA the report on the activities of the Prosecutor’s Office of the RA for 2025, which was submitted to the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia on March 31, 2026 and published on the official website of the Prosecutor’s Office.

According to the Prosecutor General, an increase in the crime detection rate was recorded in 2025. In 2025, the detection rate amounted to 29.7%, compared to 22.8% in 2024. Thus, compared to 2024, the crime detection rate increased by 6.9% in 2025.

“The overwhelming majority of the 40,722 recorded crimes — 82.6% — were minor crimes (20,041 cases, or 49.2% of all cases) and medium-gravity ceimes (13,585 cases, or 33.4%), that is, crimes posing a lower degree of public danger. Compared to 2024, the proportion of serious and particularly serious crimes within the overall crime rate decreased by 0.9% (18.3% in 2024 compared to 17.4% in 2025),” Anna Vardapetyan emphasized.

[1] The numerical indicators relating to crime incidents are presented on the basis of data provided by the Crime Statistics and Crime Analysis Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, taking into account Part 2 of Article 11 of the RA Law “On Police”, according to which the Police is obliged, in the manner prescribed by the Government, to receive, register and record applications and reports on crimes, other offenses and incidents, and to ensure their proper processing. The said procedure was established by Decision No. 1495-N of the Government of the Republic of Armenia dated November 23, 2017.