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Global, regional and national prevalence estimates for intimate partner violence against women and Global and regional prevalence estimates for non-partner sexual violence against women

7 March 2021

| Executive summary

Overview

Violence against women is a major human rights violation and a global public health problem. This report provides updated estimates for two of the most common forms of violence against women.

This report is based on an analysis of available prevalence data from surveys and studies conducted between 2000 and 2018, obtained through a systematic and comprehensive review of all available data on the prevalence of these two forms of violence against women.

The estimates in this report (also referred to as the “2018 estimates”) update the global and regional prevalence estimates published by WHO in 2013 (the “2010 estimates”), and this report also presents cross-nationally comparable country-level prevalence estimates2 of physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, which were not produced in 2013.

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Violence against women prevalence estimates, 2018 (Report)

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• Global
• WHO African Region
• WHO region of the Americas
• WHO Eastern Mediterranean region
• WHO European region
• WHO South-East Asia region
• WHO Western Pacific region

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Editors

World Health Organization, on behalf of the United Nations Inter-Agency Working Group on Violence Against Women Executive summary Estimation and Data (VAW-IAWGED)