The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has developed 13 indicators on intimate partner violence and domestic violence. Between 2023 and 2024, the indicators were used to collect national administrative data from the police and justice sectors in the EU-27 Member States, except for Slovakia.
This indicator presents data on the annual number of victims of intimate partner violence, domestic violence, and violence in any relationship, as recorded by the police. Data is presented on the number of female and/or total victims recorded each year, during the period of 2014 to 2022.
Please note, the data collected across Member States should not be compared due to differences in counting rules, data collection procedures, characteristics of victims and perpetrators included, and the types of criminal offences included. Additionally, the data must be interpreted with caution, as it only reflects the number of victims recorded by authorities and does not represent the true prevalence of violence.
Further details on the data
The table below offers additional details to interpret the data collected from Member States. Further details regarding the completeness, accuracy, and comparability of the data are presented in the reference metadata section, and in the methodological report for the data collection exercise. In-depth analysis of the data collected in each country is presented in individual country profiles.
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Country |
Details regarding the data collected by EIGE |
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Czechia (CZ) |
Data on intimate partner violence excludes partners if they are not officially registered, do not cohabitate, and there is not ongoing violence. Data on domestic violence excludes intimate partners. For police indicators, a significant change in the recording and counting of victims occurred in 2019. For this reason, data for the police sector indicators is only available from 2019 onwards. |
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Germany (DE) |
Data on domestic violence excludes non-married and former partners. For Indicator 1, the data in the category 'any relationships' from 2017 and 2018 is from a different source than the data for 2019-2022. It is unclear whether the data for 2017-2018 refers specifically to violence, or to crime more broadly as information is not available on the offences included in the data for 2017 and 2018. |
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Greece (EL) |
The comparability of data over time may have been impacted when, in 2019, the Greek police changed their method of recording data on domestic violence to include all relationships that fall under both intimate partner and domestic violence in accordance with the Istanbul Convention. |
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France (FR) |
Data on domestic violence does not include types of relationships that can exist in a domestic unit with no legal or family ties. |
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Croatia (HR) |
For Indicator 1, the data on domestic violence was retrieved from reports published by the Ombudsperson for Gender Equality. However, the data on violence in any relationship was retrieved from reports published by the Ministry of Interior. |
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Latvia (LV) |
Data on intimate partner violence excludes current and former non-cohabitating partners. Data on domestic violence excludes intimate partners. |
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Luxembourg (LU) |
Data on domestic violence refers to victims in cases that include domestic violence, but not necessarily victims of domestic violence. Data on violence in any relationship refers to victims in cases that include violence, but not necessarily victims of violence. |
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Malta (MT) |
Data on the victim–perpetrator relationship was not collected in 2019, so the intimate partner violence data shared does not cover this year. Data on victims of intimate partner violence includes violence perpetrated by both current and former spouses/partners for all years except 2021 where the disaggregation for former intimate spouses/partners is not available. |
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Portugal (PT) |
Data on intimate partner violence refers to domestic violence by an intimate partner. |
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Romania (RO) |
The list of offences included in domestic violence was expanded in 2017 and 2020; in 2018, family violence was defined as domestic violence; in 2020, cyber violence was introduced as a form of domestic violence (this affects Indicators 1–3). Police data for 2014 covers 1 February to 31 December (not the calendar year). |
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Slovenia (SI) |
Data on intimate partner violence excludes former partners who did not live together, do not have a child together, or were not officially registered. |
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Finland (FI) |
Data on intimate partner violence includes only ‘official’ relationships (e.g. it does not include relationships in which partners do not officially share a residence). Data on domestic violence excludes intimate partners. There was a rise in extortion cases in 2020, which led to a large spike in figures for Indicator 1, 2, and 5 in the category 'any relationships'. |
Available flags:
| b | break in time series | c | confidential |
| d | definition differs, see metadata | e | estimated |
| f | forecast | i | see metadata |
| m | imputed | n | not significant |
| p | provisional | r | revised |
| s | Eurostat estimate | u | low reliability |
| x | dropped due to insufficient sample size | y | unreliable due to small sample size |
| z | not applicable |