Key
findings from a recent European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
report
- An
estimated 13 million women in the EU have experienced physical
violence in the course of 12 months before the survey interviews.
- An
estimated 3.7 million women in the EU have experienced sexual
violence in the course of 12 months before the survey interviews.
- One in
three women (33%) has experienced physical and/or sexual violence
since she was 15 years old.
- Some 8% of
women have experienced physical and/or sexual violence in the 12
months before the survey interview.
- Out of all
women who have a (current or previous) partner, 22 % have experienced
physical and/or sexual violence by a partner since the age of 15.
- In total,
11% of women have experienced some form of sexual violence since they
were 15 years old, either by a partner or some other person.
- One in 20
women (5%) has been raped since the age of 15.
- Of those
women who indicate they have been victims of sexual violence by a
non-partner, almost one in 10 women indicates that more than one
perpetrator was involved in the incident when describing the details
of the most serious incident of sexual violence they have
experienced.
- One third
of victims (34 %) of physical violence by a previous partner
experienced four or more different forms of physical violence.
- Of those
women who experienced violence by a previous partner and were
pregnant during this relationship, 42% experienced violence by this
previous partner while pregnant. In comparison, 20% experienced
violence by their current partner while pregnant.
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