Between 2009/10 and 2023/24, 1,142 women have been killed by a partner, or an ex-partner in England and Wales, compared with 514 killed by family members, 316 killed by friends or acquaintances, and 273 killed by strangers. In every reporting year in the provided time period, partners or ex-partners were responsible for the highest number of homicides of female victims.

In 2023, 117 women were killed in Italy., nine less compared to 2022. Specifically, more than half of the homicides were committed either by the partner or by the ex-partner of the victim, whereas in 27 percent of the cases, the killer was a relative of the victim.

In France, the number of women killed by their spouse has fluctuated but overall has decreased since 2006. There were 148 in that year, compared to 118 in 2022. Spikes in the number of deaths of women by their partners were also recorded for the years 2007, 2012, and 2019. The women most affected in 2022 were those between 30 and 39. For men, the number of deaths has generally fluctuated between 21 and 34 in this time, although the lowest figures were recorded in more recent years.The Ministry of the Interior specifies that violent deaths within a couple fall under three different penal qualifications: murder, which is the fact of voluntarily killing another person; assassination, which is a murder committed with premeditation; and cases where voluntary violence leads to an unintentional death.

Men who murdered women on account of their gender in Peru were most usually their partners. In 2024, 87.98 percent of femicide victims were killed by their partners or other sentimental relationships. Another 815 percent were murdered by family members.

The study examined (1) the scope and nature of firearm possession by Domestic Violence Protective Order (DVPO) defendants, (2) pre- and post-legislation experiences of firearm-related intimate partner violence (IPV) among women applying for Domestic Violence Protective Orders, (3) judges' behaviors specifying firearm-related conditions in DVPOs prior to and following the legislation, and (4) the proportion of and manner in which male DVPO defendants surrendered firearms subsequent to the enactment of the new legislation. Records were extracted for 952 adult women (age 18 and older) seeking relief from a male intimate partner by filing a civil action under North Carolina Statute Chapter 50B in Durham and Wake counties, North Carolina from February 1, 2003, to June 30, 2004, and from their male offenders. Researchers compiled data from three sources: (1) DVPO files, (2) Court Ordered Protection Evaluation (COPE) study, and (3) Criminal background checks. Variables from the DVPO files include demographic information about the plaintiff and defendant, the relationship between the plaintiff and defendant, number of children under 18 in common, incident prompting the DVPO motion, DVPO conditions requested by the plaintiff, ex parte conditions granted including firearm-related restrictions, details of DVPO hearing (e.g. date, presence of attorneys), disposition of the permanent DVPO, conditions of the DVPO, if granted, and the Civil District (CVD) number for that case. Variables from the COPE study include COPE interview information regarding the women's intimate partner violence (IPV) experiences prior to filing for the DVPO (including firearm-related IPV), whether the judge inquired about firearms during the ex parte or DVPO hearings, whether the defendant possessed firearm(s) and whether he surrendered them, women's IPV experiences post-ex parte (including firearm-related IPV), and the CVD number for that case. Variables from the criminal background check include applicable charges (assault on female, communicating threats, violation of DVPO, stalking, other domestic violence related charges, firearm charges, and concealed weapon charges), the associated offense dates, and the existence and scope of other types of charges (i.e. one or more than one additional charges), and the CVD number for that case.

The number of victims of gender abuse in Spain showed a downtrend over the period of time under consideration, fluctuating from a peak in 2008 at 76 women killed by their partners and registering its lowest point in 2016 with 49 victims.

Organic Act 1/2004 In 2004, Zapatero’s government passed the Organic Act 1/2004 on Integrated Protection Measures against Gender Violence, a law approved unanimously in Parliament which included measures of prevention, protection and support for female victims of gender-based violence. Yet, 19 years later, most victims of gender violence in Spain had not filed a legal complaint against their aggressor.

On the other hand, thousands of victims have benefited from the protection granted by the new legal framework. As of 2023, more than 36,000 women were under gender violence protection schemes or precautionary measures throughout Spain. In order to comply with the measures included in the Organic Act, the hotline ATENPRO was implemented in 2005 to offer support and protection to gender-violence victims. By the end of that year it already had 5,661 active users, recording in 2024 the highest volume to date: 18,074 users.

The profile of violence

In 2023, Andalusia, Region of Valencia and Catalonia were the autonomous communities that registered the largest number of crimes regarding gender violence. The most common age among assailants ranged from 30 to 44 years, while less than 600 people who assaulted women were 19 or younger. This could mean either that teenagers are less prone to denounce these crimes, or a changing attitude among younger generations. Actually, the number of underage women that were killed in gender violence assaults in Spain have remained under ten per year since at least 2013.

In 2024, Ciudad Juárez witnessed a peak in the number of femicide cases. The northern city registered a total of 31 femicide cases that year. Danger is at home Embedded within a culture where women have endured disparagement from men, often extending even to their familial circles, a distressing pattern of violence emerges. This hostile atmosphere is compounded by the government's inadequate provisions for women's security. Notably, the primary perpetrators of this violence often reside within the confines of the home, making domestic spaces fraught with danger. A significant portion of these homicides transpire within the confines of closed domestic environments, with the perpetrators frequently identified as partners, ex-partners, or relatives of the victims. A consistent hallmark of these cases is the utilization of excessive violence, often involving bladed weapons and other implements. Lack of security for women AMLO's presidential term has been marked by the highest recorded femicide rate in Mexican history. His term has been marked by the persistently high figures, encompassing both officially recorded cases and numerous others that remain not investigated and unresolved. A significant proportion of these crimes have origins within the family sphere, yet public funding allocated towards addressing domestic violence has declined. Consequently, heightened concerns among women have prompted endeavors to assert their rights through social protests, all in pursuit of transformative change. This movement garners extensive support from the general populace, reflecting a collective aspiration for a shift in societal dynamics.

In 2023, 117 women in Italy were victims of homicide, with a decreasing trend line since 2002. In 2003, the peak of 192 homicides of females was reached. Among the ones murdered in 2023, 48 women were killed by a partner, 15 by an ex-partner, and 31 by a relative.

Number of victims of spousal homicide, Canada and regions, 1997 to 2023.

According to a survey conducted in 2023, 93 percent of French women believed it was important for the French government to be involved in the fight against sexual harassment. Moreover, 90 percent of them also thought it was important for the government to be involved in the fight against female genital mutilation in the world. Polymorphous and large-scale violence According to the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention), ratified by France on July 4, 2014, the term "violence against women" should be understood as a "violation of human rights and a form of discrimination against women, and refers to all acts of gender-based violence that result in, or are likely to result in, physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm or suffering to women, including threats to engage in such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether in public or private life."In 2021, there were nearly 321,000 women victims of physical, sexual, or verbal violence by their partner or ex-partner, as well as 122 women killed by their spouses. And, while this figure had fallen slightly in 2020, domestic violence is far from having ceased during lockdowns. In fact, according to a survey conducted in November 2020, nearly one in ten French women had experienced domestic violence during the first lockdown period (March 17 to May 11, 2020), and this proportion was even higher among mothers. Improving penal response According to ministerial data, in 2023, the number of men indicted for sexual violence amounted to around 73,730, and in 2021, the number of convictions for rape to 1,413. Yet, in 2022, more than 76,000 women were victims of sexual violence, and more than 34,000 were victims of rape. Moreover, almost 80 percent of cases of sexual violence were dismissed by the public prosecutor's office, and this proportion even exceeds 83 percent in cases of sexual harassment.More generally, the quality of police handling of complaints of domestic, sexual, or gender-based violence in France is far from being unanimously approved. Only one-third of victims who have filed a complaint report that they were well taken care of by law enforcement. On the contrary, others mention a trivialization of the facts on the part of the police, frequent refusals to take the complaint into account, discouragement, and even guilt-inducing speeches or discriminating statements.Thus, the denunciation of the lack of means put in place by the government and of the absence of structural reforms on the part of many feminist associations does not seem surprising. These associations perceive the "great cause of the five-year term" as a series of announcements that have produced very few results. In fact, in October 2021, only half of French women said they were satisfied with Emmanuel Macron's actions regarding women's rights.

Abstract

The Lao Social Indicator Survey 2011-12 (LSIS 2011-12) is a nation-wide household-based survey of social development indicators. It combines the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) and Lao Reproductive Health Survey (LRHS) where the LRHS applied technical platform of Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). The LSIS is based on MICS4 platform and add-on DHS modules, for example, live birth history and the maternal mortality module.

The LSIS 2011-12 was undertaken by the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Planning and Investment (Lao Statistics Bureau) in collaboration with other line ministries. UNICEF and UNFPA were the primary agencies giving financial and technical assistance to support the survey. In addition, USAID, AusAID, LuxGov, WHO, UNDP, SDC, JICA and WFP provided financial and technical input to the implementation of the LSIS.

The main purposes of LSIS are to allow continued monitoring of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to serve as a baseline for the 7th National Socio-Economic Development Plan (7th NSEDP). The survey results can also be used by the Government and development partners to prepare policies, strategies and planning to improve the social environment of people in Lao PDR, especially women and men of reproductive age (15 to 49 years) and children age under five. In addition, the survey provides key sources and references for researchers and academics to conduct further analysis and research studies in specific areas using LSIS data.

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

• individuals
• households

Universe

The survey covered all de jure household members (usual residents), all women aged between 15-49 years, all children under 5 living in the household, and all men aged 15-49 years.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

The primary objective of the sample design for the 2011-12 Lao Social Indicator Survey (LSIS) was to produce statistically reliable estimates of most indicators, at the national level, for urban and rural areas, and for each of the 17 provinces of the country. The survey was designed to provide information on fertility and early childhood mortality, family planning, reproductive and child health, nutrition, water and sanitation, child protection, child development and education, use of mass media and information technology, knowledge and behaviour regarding HIV/AIDS, and adult and maternal mortality. All women age 15-49 who were usual residents of the selected households were eligible for the survey. A male survey was also conducted in half of the households. All men aged 15-49 who were usual residents of every second household visited by the field team were eligible for the male survey.

The sizes of the provinces vary greatly, ranging from 16,000 to 140,000 households and this posed a challenge for the sample design. A multi-stage, stratified cluster sampling approach was used for the selection of the survey sample. Urban areas, rural areas with roads, and rural areas without roads in each of the 17 provinces were defined as the sampling strata.

The sampling frame for this survey consisted of all villages in the country, arranged by province, with appropriate size estimates (number of households) and other relevant information about each village. The list of villages is updated each year, with the most recent update prior to the design in December 2009.

For the calculation of the sample size, the key indicator used was the contraceptive prevalence rate (modern method).Various methods were available for allocating the sample to the different provinces. At one extreme is the method of equal allocation used in both the 2005 LRHS and the 2006 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), but this method is inefficient for producing national estimates. At the other extreme is the method of proportional allocation, where the share of the total sample that a province gets depends on its size. This method is good for producing national estimates, but not for producing provincial estimates as the sampling error will be large in the smaller provinces where the sample size is small. As a compromise the allocation was based on the square root of the size of each province, with a minimum of 1,000 households selected in each province and a maximum of 1,500 households.

After arriving at the sample size allocation for each province the number of villages selected per province was calculated using a fixed 'take' of 20 households per village. Once the number of villages for a province was determined, the villages (PSUs) were distributed to the urban, rural with road and rural without road domains, in proportion with the number of households in each domain.

The selection of the villages was performed by first ordering the list of villages according to the three types of locality (urban, rural with road, rural without road). Villages were selected with probability proportional to the number of households in the village, based on a fixed interval of selection and a random start chosen between 0 and the sampling interval.

Since the sampling frame was not up-to-date, a new listing of households was conducted in all the sample enumeration areas prior to the selection of households. For this purpose, teams were formed to visit each enumeration area and to list the occupied households. The listing operation took place from November 2010 to early January 2011 with 70 operators covering all 999 enumeration areas. In each province there were two teams each consisting of a lister and a mapper, except in Champasack, where three teams were assigned.

Lists of households for each enumeration area were prepared by the listing teams in the field. The households were then sequentially numbered from 1 to n (the total number of households in each enumeration area) at the Surveys Division of the Lao Statistics Bureau, where the selection of 20 households in each enumeration area was carried out using a systematic selection procedure beginning from a random start.

The sampling procedures are more fully described in "Lao PDR Social Indicator Survey 2011-2012 - Final Report" pp.292-295.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

The questionnaires for the Generic MICS were structured questionnaires based on the MICS4 model questionnaire with some modifications and additions. Household questionnaires were administered in each household, which collected various information on household members including sex, age and relationship. The household questionnaire includes household listing form, education, water and sanitation, household characteristics, insecticide-treated nets, child discipline and salt iodization.

In addition to a household questionnaire, questionnaires were administered in each household for women age 15-49, children under age five and men age 15-49. For children, the questionnaire was administered to the mother or primary caretaker of the child.

The women's questionnaire includes woman's background, access to mass media and use of information/communication technology, child mortality with birth history, desire for last birth, maternal and newborn health, post-natal health checks, illness symptoms, contraception, unmet need, attitudes towards domestic violence, marriage/union, sexual behavior, HIV/AIDS, and maternal mortality.

The children's questionnaire includes child's age, birth registration, early childhood development, breastfeeding, care of illness, malaria, immunization and anthropometry.

The men's questionnaire includes man's background, access to mass media and use of information/communication technology, contraception, attitudes toward domestic violence, marriage and sexual activity, and HIV/AIDS.

The LSIS questionnaires are based on the UNICEF MICS4 model questionnaires with components added from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), for example, the components the full birth history and the maternal mortality module and interviewing a subsample of men. The original questionnaires were designed in English, then translated into the Lao language and were pre-tested in three villages in Luangprabang in January 2011. Based on the results of the pre-test, modifications were made to the wording and translation of the questionnaires.

In addition to the administration of questionnaires, fieldwork teams tested the salt used for cooking in the households for inclusion of iodine, and measured the weight and height of children age under 5 years.

Cleaning operations

Data processing began simultaneously with data collection in October 2011 and was completed on 15 March 2012. Data were entered using CSPro software. The data were entered on 14 microcomputers and carried out by 14 data entry operators temporarily recruited and trained by four data entry supervisors from the Lao Statistics Bureau (LSB). In order to ensure quality control, all questionnaires were double entered and internal consistency checks were performed. Procedures and standard programmes developed under the global MICS4 programme and adapted to the LSIS questionnaire by the LSB in collaboration with a data processing expert from ICF International were used throughout. Data were analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), Version 19, and the model syntax and tabulation plans developed by UNICEF and ICF International were used for this purpose.

Response rate

Of the 19,960 households selected for inclusion in the LSIS, 19,018 were found to be occupied. Of these, 18,843 were successfully interviewed, yielding a household response rate of 99 percent. In the interviewed

From January to December 2024, at least 267 women were victims of femicide in Argentina. Of those women, almost two thirds (60 percent) were murdered by their partners or ex-partners. The third most common type of relationship between femicide perpetrators and their victims was kinship, with around seven percent of cases.

In 2023, almost one out of three ever-partnered Turkish women had experienced domestic violence. In comparison, only 12 percent of women living in Switzerland had experienced domestic violence in their lifetime.

The homicide rate in Russia reached 3.2 homicides per 100,000 population in 2023. The indicator has declined steadily since 2002, when it was measured at 30.7 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. Over the years observed, the highest rate was recorded at 32.6 homicides per 100,000 persons in 1994. Homicide in Russia The significant decrease in intentional homicides characterizes the general reduction in crime in Russia since the 1990s. However, murder remains one of the major causes of death in the country. In total, over 7,600 homicides and attempted homicides were recorded in Russia in 2022. Victims of homicide The number of male victims of homicide per 100,000 inhabitants in Russia was approximately three times higher than the murder rate of women. A United Nations study showed that while most people who were killed around the globe were men, women were most likely to be murdered by their partners, ex-partners, and family members.

In 2023 in the United States, 12 people were murdered by their employer. However, 3,527 people were killed by an acquaintance compared to 1,674 who were killed by a stranger. A ranking of the total number of murders by U.S. state can be found here.

In 2019, there were about 15 thousand reports of stalkers. Almost 13 thousand were men, while 2.4 thousand were women.

According to a survey conducted in the same year, 34.3 percent of female victims declared to have been stalked by their ex-partner.

The life expectancy for men aged 65 years in the U.S. has gradually increased since the 1960s. Now men in the United States aged 65 can expect to live 17 more years on average. Women aged 65 years can expect to live around 19.7 more years on average.

Life expectancy in the U.S.

As of 2021, the average life expectancy at birth in the United States was 76.33 years. Life expectancy in the U.S. had steadily increased for many years but has recently dropped slightly. Women consistently have a higher life expectancy than men but have also seen a slight decrease. As of 2019, a woman in the U.S. could be expected to live up to 79.3 years.

Leading causes of death

The leading causes of death in the United States include heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, chronic lower respiratory diseases and cerebrovascular diseases. However, heart disease and cancer account for around 38 percent of all deaths. Although heart disease and cancer are the leading causes of death for both men and women, there are slight variations in the leading causes of death. For example, unintentional injury and suicide account for a larger portion of deaths among men than they do among women.

This statistic shows the average life expectancy in North America for those born in 2022, by gender and region. In Canada, the average life expectancy was 80 years for males and 84 years for females.

Life expectancy in North America

Of those considered in this statistic, the life expectancy of female Canadian infants born in 2021 was the longest, at 84 years. Female infants born in America that year had a similarly high life expectancy of 81 years. Male infants, meanwhile, had lower life expectancies of 80 years (Canada) and 76 years (USA).

Compare this to the worldwide life expectancy for babies born in 2021: 75 years for women and 71 years for men. Of continents worldwide, North America ranks equal first in terms of life expectancy of (77 years for men and 81 years for women). Life expectancy is lowest in Africa at just 63 years and 66 years for males and females respectively. Japan is the country with the highest life expectancy worldwide for babies born in 2020.

Life expectancy is calculated according to current mortality rates of the population in question. Global variations in life expectancy are caused by differences in medical care, public health and diet, and reflect global inequalities in economic circumstances. Africa’s low life expectancy, for example, can be attributed in part to the AIDS epidemic. In 2019, around 72,000 people died of AIDS in South Africa, the largest amount worldwide. Nigeria, Tanzania and India were also high on the list of countries ranked by AIDS deaths that year. Likewise, Africa has by far the highest rate of mortality by communicable disease (i.e. AIDS, neglected tropics diseases, malaria and tuberculosis).

When it comes to picking a potential partner on a dating app, individuals who have experienced these apps have different expectations. The decisiveness of given criteria also differed according to the gender of the respondent in France in 2021. For example, the education and manners of a potential partner on an app was decisive for 59 percent of women but only 37 percent of men. However, they gave the same importance to physical appearance, as roughly 45 percent of them said it was a decisive criteria.

The survey carried out in February 2020 asked French men and women aged 18 and over if they had ever engaged in revenge porn activities, meaning if they had shared risky or naked pictures/videos of their (ex-)partner on the Internet without them knowing. Around 90 percent of men and women reported having never shared such content and would probably never do it. Of men, seven percent had never done it but could consider it, against two percent of women. Lastly, one percent of women had shared risky photos or videos of their partner without their consent, which was four percent less than men.