Each of these numbers is someone we know, even when we don't know it.
Statistics last reviewed October 2026
Estimated number of women and girls killed by violence worldwide so far this year
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Every one of them had a life that mattered. Around the world, another woman or girl is lost on average every 6 minutes and 20 seconds.
0:00 until we lose another.
Source: UNODC and UN Women, Femicides in 2024: Global estimates of intimate partner/family member femicides, November 2025These statistics cover violence against women, including sexual violence and women killed by partners.
1 in 4
1 in 4 Australian women has experienced violence from a partner (23%).
Women 18 and over were asked about everything that has happened since they turned 15. A partner here means someone she lived with, or a boyfriend, girlfriend or date.
Australia
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Personal Safety, Australia, 2021-2231%
1 in 3 Australian women has experienced physical violence since the age of 15. That includes threats.
Women 18 and over were asked about everything that has happened since they turned 15. This counts violence from anyone, known to her or not.
Australia
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Personal Safety, Australia, 2021-221 in 6
1 in 6 Australian women saw a parent hurt by a partner when she was a child.
Women 18 and over, remembering what they saw growing up.
Australia
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Personal Safety, Australia, 2021-2254%
54% of people recorded by Queensland Police as assaulted in 2025 were hurt in a family or domestic violence incident.
Everyone Queensland Police recorded as assaulted in 2025, women and men. Many assaults never reach the police.
Queensland
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Recorded Crime - Victims, 202531.6%
Nearly 1 in 3 women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence from a partner, or sexual violence from someone else.
Women 15 and over around the world, across their whole lives.
Global
Source: World Health Organization, Violence against women fact sheet, 2026 fact sheet (2023 estimates)1 in 5
1 in 5 Australian women has experienced sexual violence since the age of 15 (22%).
Women 18 and over were asked about everything that has happened since they turned 15. This counts sexual assault and threats, from anyone.
Australia
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Personal Safety, Australia, 2021-229,173
Queensland Police recorded 9,173 victims of sexual assault in 2025. 86% were women or girls.
People of every age that Queensland Police recorded in 2025. Most sexual assaults are never reported.
Queensland
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Recorded Crime - Victims, 20251 in 4
1 in 4 Australian women has been emotionally abused by a partner she lived with (23%).
Women 18 and over were asked about everything that has happened since they turned 15. This counts partners she lived with.
Australia
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Personal Safety, Australia, 2021-221 in 6
1 in 6 Australian women has experienced economic abuse from a partner she lived with (16%).
Women 18 and over were asked about everything that has happened since they turned 15. This counts partners she lived with.
Australia
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Personal Safety, Australia, 2021-221 in 5
1 in 5 Australian women has been stalked (20%).
Women 18 and over were asked about everything that has happened since they turned 15. This counts stalking by anyone.
Australia
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Personal Safety, Australia, 2021-2232
32 women were killed by a current or former partner in Australia in 2024-25.
Between July 2024 and June 2025. The year before, it was 48 women.
Australia
Source: Australian Institute of Criminology, Homicide in Australia 2024-25 (Statistical Report 58), 2026169
169 women were killed by a current or former partner in Australia in the five years to June 2025.
Between July 2020 and June 2025.
Australia
Source: Australian Institute of Criminology, Homicide in Australia 2024-25 (Statistical Report 58), 202610
10 women were killed by a partner in Queensland in 2024-25.
Between July 2024 and June 2025.
Queensland
Source: Australian Institute of Criminology, Homicide in Australia 2024-25 (Statistical Report 58), 20262 in 3
2 in 3 women killed in Australia in 2024-25 were killed by a partner or family member. 8% were killed by a stranger.
Women killed between July 2024 and June 2025, where police know who killed her.
Australia
Source: Australian Institute of Criminology, Homicide in Australia 2024-25 (Statistical Report 58), 202662%
In 62% of partner killings, the killer had a known history of domestic violence.
Partner killings in 2024-25, outside New South Wales, which didn't provide data. A history means the killer had used or experienced violence before.
Australia
Source: Australian Institute of Criminology, Homicide in Australia 2024-25 (Statistical Report 58), 202658%
In more than half of cases where a man killed his female partner, the relationship had ended or one of them had said they wanted to leave.
224 men who killed a female partner between 2010 and 2018, where there had already been domestic violence.
Australia
Source: Australian Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Network, Data Report: Intimate partner violence homicides 2010-2018, 2nd edition, 2022137
Around 137 women and girls are killed every day worldwide by a partner or family member.
Women and girls of every age in 2024. An estimate of about 50,000 lives a year.
Global
Source: UNODC and UN Women, Femicides in 2024: Global estimates of intimate partner/family member femicides, November 202583,000
An estimated 83,000 women and girls were killed intentionally worldwide in 2024.
Women and girls of every age, killed by anyone. 60% of them were killed by a partner or family member.
Global
Source: UNODC and UN Women, Femicides in 2024: Global estimates of intimate partner/family member femicides, November 202531%
In Queensland, 31% of people found guilty in a domestic violence case in 2024-25 were sentenced to custody.
Everyone found guilty of a family or domestic violence offence in Queensland in 2024-25. These are early, experimental figures.
Queensland
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Criminal Courts, Australia, 2024-2582%
82% of prison sentences for breaching a domestic violence order in Queensland were under 12 months.
Adults sentenced in Queensland between 2016-17 and 2023-24, where breaching the order was the most serious offence.
Queensland
Source: Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council, Sentencing Spotlight on Contravention of a domestic violence order, May 202598.7%
98.7% of adults sentenced for rape in Queensland got a custodial sentence. That includes partly or wholly suspended sentences.
Adults sentenced in Queensland with rape as the most serious offence, 2005-06 to 2022-23.
Queensland
Source: Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council, Sentencing Spotlight on Rape, December 2023Not adequate
Queensland's Sentencing Advisory Council found that penalties for rape are not adequate, particularly when the victim is a child.
The Council's review of rape and sexual assault sentences in Queensland courts.
Queensland
Source: Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council, Sentencing of Sexual Assault and Rape: The Ripple Effect, Final Report, Executive Summary, December 202492%
92% of Australians say they would speak up if a friend verbally abused his partner.
19,100 Australians aged 16 and over, asked in 2021 what they would do. Saying it and doing it aren't always the same.
Australia
Source: ANROWS, Attitudes matter: The 2021 National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey, Findings for Australia, 20231 in 3
1 in 3 Australians would not be bothered by a mate's sexist joke at work.
19,100 Australians aged 16 and over, asked in 2021 what they would do. Saying it and doing it aren't always the same.
Australia
Source: ANROWS, Attitudes matter: The 2021 National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey, Findings for Australia, 202355%
55% of men would be bothered by a friend's sexist joke. 75% of women would.
19,100 Australians aged 16 and over, asked in 2021 what they would do. Saying it and doing it aren't always the same.
Australia
Source: ANROWS, Attitudes matter: The 2021 National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey, Findings for Australia, 20238.3%
Police were told about fewer than 1 in 10 sexual assaults on women by men.
Women 18 and over, thinking about the last time a man sexually assaulted them, in the 10 years to 2021-22.
Australia
Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Family, domestic and sexual violence, 20261 in 7
In 2016, police were told about 1 in 7 sexual assaults on women by a partner or family member.
Women 18 and over, thinking about the last time a male partner or family member sexually assaulted them, in the 10 years to 2016.
Australia
Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Family, domestic and sexual violence, 2026