Gender-Based Violence
The most widespread human rights violation in the world, and among the least prosecuted.
Severity score
57.8
Severe · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Roughly one in three women experiences physical or sexual violence in her lifetime, most often from an intimate partner. Around fifty thousand women a year are killed by partners or family members. Reporting rates and conviction rates are low almost everywhere.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
52Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
96People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
74Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
1Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
32Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.