- Global femicides / family-member killings (2023) — UNODC / UN Women: about one woman killed every 10 minutes by an intimate partner or family member (summary headline from the 2023 femicide estimates). This reflects recorded homicides classified as intimate-partner / family-member femicides. UNODC+1
- England & Wales (year ending March 2024) — 851,062 domestic abuse-related crimes recorded by police (1,350,428 domestic abuse incidents & crimes combined). (Covers recorded domestic-abuse incidents/crimes; includes physical, sexual, emotional, coercive control where police flagged it.) Office for National Statistics+1
- European Union (2023, police records) — 3,930 intentional homicides recorded across the EU in 2023; 243,715 sexual violence offences (including 91,370 rape offences) registered in 2023. (EU police statistics; sexual-violence figures are police-recorded offences.) European Commission+1
- United States (2023 FBI / BJS) — FBI’s 2023 national estimates show an overall estimated 3.0% decrease in violent crime reported in 2023 compared with 2022; the Bureau of Justice Statistics report (Criminal Victimization, 2023) reports measured rates of violent victimization and notes trends in reported intimate-partner violence (IPV) and reporting rates. (U.S. police and victimization survey data — police reports + survey estimates in BJS). Federal Bureau of Investigation+1
- EU: sexual assault victims per 100,000 (police data, 2022) — 64.2 women per 100,000 women were police-recorded victims of sexual assault (EU average, 2022 police data). (Useful to compare police-record rates per population.) European Commission
- Selected national headlines / examples
- England & Wales: Police recorded 1,350,428 domestic abuse incidents/crimes in YE March 2024 (see above). Office for National Statistics
- Kenya (recent reporting): Government reported 7,107 sexual and gender-based violence cases since Sept 2023 in one announcement and noted 100 women killed in 4 months in 2024 reporting; country responses have been highlighted due to rising partner-related femicides. (Example of national police reports being used to highlight trends). AP News
Quick comparative point (reported crime vs survey/prevalence)
- Official police-recorded numbers (above) are much lower than prevalence estimates from surveys and global health agencies (for example: WHO/UN estimates that ~30% of women experience intimate physical/sexual violence in their lifetime; ~1 billion children experience violence). That’s why both police figures and survey-based prevalence statistics are important but different. UNODC+1
Limitations & what these numbers DO / DO NOT show
- Under-reporting is very large — many victims never contact police; cultural, legal and resource barriers mean police figures are a lower-bound.
- Different definitions and recording practices — “domestic abuse,” “intimate partner violence,” “sexual assault,” and “economic/financial abuse” are defined differently across jurisdictions; some police datasets don’t separately code financial or emotional abuse. European Commission+1
- Time-lags & dataset coverage — national releases come on different timetables (some countries’ latest published data are 2022/2023; others released 2024 reports).
- Elder & financial abuse police data are sparse — many countries do not separately publish robust police counts for elder financial exploitation or economic coercion; often these appear only in specialized studies/surveys, not routine police crime bulletins. European Commission+1
