Killings of women and girls by their intimate partner or other family members

Some 47,000 women and girls worldwide were killed by their intimate partners or other family members in 2020. This means that, on average, a woman or girl is killed by someone in her own family every 11 minutes. Where trends can be calculated, they show that the magnitude of such gender-related killings remains largely unchanged, however, with only marginal increases and decreases over the past decade.

Key wordsFemicides / gender based violence / Violence Against Women

CountriesGlobal

CategoryPublication