Rankings built from public statistics, with the method and the data behind every list.https://rankcomet.com/enhttps://rankcomet.com/homicide-rate/https://rankcomet.com/homicide-rate/Lithuania’s police recorded 2.42 homicides per 100,000 people a year from 2022 to 2024, the highest rate of 36 European countries. Switzerland had the lowest, 0.53. Death certificates rank several countries very differently.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://rankcomet.com/leaving-home-age/https://rankcomet.com/leaving-home-age/Young Croatians leave their parents’ home at 31.5 on average, the latest in Europe. Finns leave at 21.3, ten years earlier. We ranked Eurostat’s 2025 estimates for 31 countries and checked them against a second EU survey.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:45:00 GMThttps://rankcomet.com/prison-overcrowding/https://rankcomet.com/prison-overcrowding/On 31 January 2025, Slovenia held 1,804 inmates for 1,346 prison places, the most crowded prisons of 41 European countries. France came second at 130.8%. We worked out every country’s density from the Council of Europe’s penal statistics and checked them against national prison data.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:30:00 GMThttps://rankcomet.com/years-in-retirement/https://rankcomet.com/years-in-retirement/People in Luxembourg live 24.6 years on average after they stop working, the longest of the 38 OECD countries. France follows with 24.3 years and Mexico comes last with 16.5. We ranked the OECD’s figures for 2024 and checked them against national life tables.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMThttps://rankcomet.com/shortest-day-daylight/https://rankcomet.com/shortest-day-daylight/On 21 December 2026, Reykjavík gets 4 h 07 min of daylight and Nicosia 9 h 47 min. We calculated sunrise and sunset in 42 European capitals and checked every time against the US Naval Observatory.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMThttps://rankcomet.com/public-holidays-weekdays/https://rankcomet.com/public-holidays-weekdays/Albania gets 15 public holidays from Monday to Friday in 2027, Switzerland and Bosnia and Herzegovina only 2. We checked the official 2027 calendar of 41 countries.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT