Britain has lowest rape conviction rate in Europe.

European countries with better conviction rates: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Croatia, about 30 more. From the Daily Mail:

Rape victims are to be asked how the criminal justice system is failing them after new research has revealed that Britain has the worst conviction rates in Europe.

The move by the policing standards watchdog, the HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, aims to encourage more women to report rape.

It follows Home Office attempts to improve conviction rates appear to have floundered.

The project comes after London taxi driver John Worboys was left free to attack hundreds of women because police officers did not believe victims’ reports of being assaulted.

One woman was told that black cab drivers 'don’t do that sort of thing'.

Just 6.5 per cent of reported rapes in England and Wales lead to a conviction, despite a push to increase the number of victims coming forward, a new study revealed last night.

Two decades ago, despite fewer rapes being reported, the conviction rate was 19 per cent. Scotland has an even lower conviction rate at only 2.9 per cent.

Countries such as France, meanwhile, had a conviction rate of 25 per cent in 2006, according to the first Europe-wide study of rape conviction rates.

Britain came bottom of 33 countries in the study, which is based on 1,100 case files and takes account of different legal processes and varying official definitions of rape in each country.