In 2022, there were slightly more female victims of violent crime than male victims, with about 1,749,030 male victims and 1,762,840 female victims. These figures are a significant increase from the previous year, when there were 1,456,310 male victims and 1,278,390.

What counts as violent crime?

Violent crime in the United States includes murder, rape, sexual assault, robbery, and assault. While violent crime across all areas has been steadily falling over the past few decades, the rate of aggravated assault is still relatively high, at 284.4 cases per 100,000 of the population. In 2021, there were more property crimes committed in the U.S. than there were violent crimes.

Keep your enemies closer

It is usually said that most victims know their attacker, and the data backs this up. In 2021, very few murders were committed by strangers. The same goes for rape and sexual assault victims; the majority were perpetrated by acquaintances, intimate partners, or relatives.

This statistic shows the proportion of survey respondents who were victims of crime in 2017/18, by gender. Males were slightly more likely to be victims of all types of crime than females.12.9 percent of male were victims of all crime types, compared to 12.9 percent of females being a victim of all types of crime.

In 2023, 376,038 women were victims of rape or sexual assault in the United States, while the corresponding number of men who were raped or sexually assaulted in that year was 104,979.

Number of victims and rate per 100,000 population of police-reported violent crime and traffic violations causing bodily harm or death committed by family members or other persons, by age and gender of victim, Canada, provinces, territories and census metropolitan areas, 2019 to 2023.

In 2022, threats was the type of crime reported by the highest share of both women and men in Sweden, with 7.6 and 8.0 percent, respectively. Moreover, except for harassment and sexual assault, the share of self-reported crimes was highest among men for each type of crime. Nearly eight percent of women in Sweden reported that they were victims of sexual abuse, compared to only one percent of men.

Number of victims and rate per 100,000 population of police-reported violent crime and traffic violations causing bodily harm or death committed by intimate partners or other persons, by age and gender of victim, Canada, provinces, territories and census metropolitan areas, 2019 to 2023.

In 2021, around 1.07 percent of all men aged 12 or older in the United States experienced one or more violent victimizations. This was compared to about 0.89 percent of women aged 12 or orlder who were the victim of a violent crime in that same year.

The purpose of this project was to estimate long-term trends in violent victimization by gender and various socio-demographic factors. These factors included race and ethnicity, age, type of place (urban, suburban, rural), socio-economic status, marital status (for adults), and family status (for juveniles). The principal investigators also further disaggregated these violent victimization trends by victim-offender relationship to reveal trends in violence committed by strangers, intimate partners, and known/non-intimate offenders. The researchers produced these various trends in violent victimization by pooling and appropriately weighting the National Crime Survey and its successor, the National Crime Victimization Survey for the period 1973 to 2005, resulting in 33 years of data. In total, a series of 135 trends in violent victimization were developed.

Statistics on Domestic Violence and Gender Violence: Victims (with protective orders or interim measures) by sex and age. Annual. National.

The data below represents the gender of the victims of substantiated abuse or neglect. A child is represented more than once if he or she suffered more than one type of abuse or was involved in more than one substantiated report during the year

Statistics on Domestic Violence and Gender Violence: Relationship of victims with the reported persons by age group and place of birth of the victim. Annual. National.

Statistics on Domestic Violence and Gender Violence: Victims (with protective orders or interim measures) according to age group, place of birth and type of relationship with the reported person. Annual. National.

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Series, previously called the National Crime Surveys (NCS), has been collecting data on personal and household victimization through an ongoing survey of a nationally-representative sample of residential addresses since 1973. The NCVS was designed with four primary objectives: (1) to develop detailed information about the victims and consequences of crime, (2) to estimate the number and types of crimes not reported to the police, (3) to provide uniform measures of selected types of crimes, and (4) to permit comparisons over time and types of areas. The survey categorizes crimes as "personal" or "property." Personal crimes include rape and sexual attack, robbery, aggravated and simple assault, and purse-snatching/pocket-picking, while property crimes include burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, and vandalism. Each respondent is asked a series of screen questions designed to determine whether she or he was victimized during the six-month period preceding the first day of the month of the interview. A "household respondent" is also asked to report on crimes against the household as a whole (e.g., burglary, motor vehicle theft). The data include type of crime, month, time, and location of the crime, relationship between victim and offender, characteristics of the offender, self-protective actions taken by the victim during the incident and results of those actions, consequences of the victimization, type of property lost, whether the crime was reported to police and reasons for reporting or not reporting, and offender use of weapons, drugs, and alcohol. Basic demographic information such as age, race, gender, and income is also collected, to enable analysis of crime by various subpopulations. This version of the NCVS, referred to as the collection year, contains records from interviews conducted in the 12 months of the given year.

Statistics on Domestic Violence and Gender Violence: Cases initiated. Victims and Persons reported. Annual. National.

In 2022, there were approximately 648.9 thousand male and 429.1 thousand female crime victims in South Korea. While the number of victims increased across both genders compared to the previous year, there was a higher number of male victims than female victims throughout the surveyed period.

Information on victims — broken down by age and sex and separated for completed acts, attempts and overall by type of offence

This dataset contains the yearly statistics on the number of victims by offense types and by bias motivation. Major categories of offense types include crimes against persons, crimes against property and crimes against society. Each offense type is further categorized by type of crime such as murder, rape, trafficking, robbery etc. Major categories of bias motivations include Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry, Religion, Sexual Orientation, Disability, Gender and Gender Identity.

This table provides annual data since 2003 on female victims of gender-based violence at the hands of their partner or ex-partner in the Canary Islands.

Information on victims per district broken down by age and sex and separated for completed acts, attempts and overall by selected types of crime with additional age groups

Statistics on Domestic Violence and Gender Violence: Percentage distribution of the pair victim/reported person by place of birth of both. Annual. National.