Statistics

• "On average, 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States — more than 12 million women and men over the course of a year."
• "1 in 4 women (24.3%) and 1 in 7 men (13.8%) aged 18 and older in the United States have been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime." 
• "From 1994 to 2010, about 4 in 5 victims of intimate partner violence were female"
• "81% of women who experienced rape, stalking, or physical violence by an intimate partner reported significant short- or long-term impacts such as post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and injury"
• 1 in 15 children are exposed to intimate partner violence each year, and 90% of these children are eyewitnesses to this violence
• "30 to 60% of perpetrators of intimate partner violence also abuse children in the household." 
• "One in 10 high school students has experienced physical violence from a dating partner in the past year."
• "43% of dating college women report experiencing violent and abusive dating behaviors including physical, sexual, tech, verbal or controlling abuse." 
• "Nearly 1 in 3 (29%) college women say they have been in an abusive dating relationship."
• "52% of college women report knowing a friend who has experienced violent and abusive dating behaviors including physical, sexual, tech, verbal or controlling abuse."
• "58% of college students say they don’t know what to do to help someone who is a victim of dating abuse."
• "38% of college students say they don’t know how to get help for themselves if they were a victim of dating abuse."
• "Nearly 33% of women killed in U.S. workplaces between 2003-2008 were killed by a current or former intimate partner."
• "64% of the respondents in a 2005 survey who identified themselves as victims of domestic violence indicated that their ability to work was affected by the violence. More than half of domestic violence victims (57%) said they were distracted, almost half (45%) feared getting discovered, and two in five were afraid of their intimate partner’s unexpected visit (either by phone or in person)"
• "Nine in ten employees (91%) say that domestic violence has a negative impact on their company’s bottom line. Just 43% of corporate executives agree. Seven in ten corporate executives (71%) do not perceive domestic violence as a major issue at their company." 
• 72% of all murder-suicides involve an intimate partner; 94% of the victims of these murder suicides are female

Sources: NCADV: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://ncadv.org/statistics

Statistics. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.thehotline.org/resources/statistics/.

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