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Britain’s figures far outstrip those of second-worst EU country — Austria, with 1,677 violent crimes per 100,000 people.
And the UK rate has increased by a shocking 77 per cent since 1998.
The numbers were released by the European Commission.
They also tell how Britain has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: “This is a real damning indictment of this Government’s comprehensive failure to tackle the deep-rooted social problems in our society, and the knock-on effect on crime and anti-social behaviour.”
Britain also has a higher homicide rate than most of our western European neighbours, including France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
But overall we came 13th worst in our rate for murders. Lithuania topped the list, followed by Estonia and Latvia.
The figures, recording crime in 2007, also show the UK has the fifth-highest robbery rate in the EU, and the fourth-highest burglary rate.
We have twice as many burglaries as Germany or France.
The country with the lowest rate of violent crime was Romania, with just 32 violent crimes per 100,000 people.
But experts claim Romania as well as Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey — all at the bottom of the list — have different ways of recording crime.
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