Key Takeaways
- 30% of women aged 18-24 experience IPV, highest among age groups.
- Black women experience IPV at 35% lifetime rate vs 29% white women.
- 43% of Hispanic women report IPV victimization.
- Annual economic cost of IPV against women in US is $5.8 billion.
- IPV causes women to lose 8 million paid work days per year in US.
- Lifetime economic cost per victim of nonfatal IPV is $103,767 for women.
- Intimate partner violence accounts for 15% of all violent crime against women in the US.
- Women who experience intimate partner violence are 1.5 times more likely to suffer from depression.
- 42% of women who experienced violence by an intimate partner reported depressive symptoms.
- In the US, only 34% of IPV incidents are reported to police.
- 80% of DV homicides occur after separation when no protection order exists.
- Only 7% of DV cases result in conviction in India.
- Globally, 1 in 3 women (approximately 736 million women) have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.
- In the United States, more than 12 million women and men are victims of rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner each year.
- About 1 in 4 women (24.3%) and 1 in 7 men (13.8%) have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
One in three young women and 37 percent of survivors miss work due to intimate partner violence.
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