EIGE

Annual number of [female and total] victims of [intimate partner/ domestic/ any] [femicide/homicide], as recorded by the police genvio_int_adm_ipv__eige_ipv_victfem

Time format:
Years
Unit:
Number of victims (comparable)
Description:

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 homicide, domestic homicide, and homicide 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.

Country

Details regarding the data collected by EIGE

Belgium (BE)

Data refers to offences, not victims.

Data on intimate partner violence excludes current and former non-cohabitating partners.

Data on domestic violence refers to all offences between people with family relationships but does not refer to other domestic (non-family) relationships (e.g. friends who share the same residence are not included).

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.

Germany (DE)

Data on domestic violence excludes non-married and former partners.

Ireland (IE)

Data refers to victims where the primary incident was classed as homicide or manslaughter.

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.

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 (e.g. housemates are not included).

Latvia (LV)

Data on intimate partner violence excludes current and former non-cohabitating partners.

Data on domestic violence excludes intimate partners.

Malta (MT)

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.

Portugal (PT)

The comparability of this data cannot be assessed. Although data has been shared on homicide, metadata has not been shared for this indicator.

Romania (RO)

Police data for 2014 covers 1 February to 31 December (not the calendar year).

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.

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.

Sweden (SE)

These statistics were collected through a special study. No information on perpetrator-victim partnership was retrieved for the years prior to 2017. No other family relationship information is retrieved for this study.
BE
BG
CZ
DK
DE
EE
IE
EL
ES
FR
HR
IT
CY
LV
LT
LU
HU
MT
NL
AT
PL
PT
RO
SI
SK
FI
SE
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
BE
179(d)
154(d)
150(d)
147(d)
192(d)
198(d)
175(d)
231(d)
210(d)
BG
CZ
86(d)
57(d)
77(d)
87(d)
DK
58
37
48
50
52
58
48
57
65
DE
686(d)
695(d)
782(d)
623(d)
788(d)
813(d)
963(d)
682(d)
716(d)
EE
IE
81(d)
56(d)
71(d)
64(d)
88(d)
95(d)
86(d)
84(d)
111(d)
EL
117(d)
89(d)
78(d)
78(d)
99(d)
86(d)
84(d)
93(d)
107(d)
ES
325
290
298
331
290
307
294
302
323
FR
841(d)
780(d)
873(d)
837(d)
828(d)
824(d)
HR
27
30
36
31
22
43
44
33
35
IT
319
303
285
317
360
376
404
471
487
CY
LV
67(d)
57(d)
70(d)
65(d)
84(d)
88(d)
69(d)
130(d)
133(d)
LT
67
72
102
95
92
100
123
120
158
LU
10
3
2
4
3
HU
106
85
95
69
MT
8(d)
2(d)
7(d)
5(d)
7(d)
10(d)
5(d)
4(d)
6(d)
NL
126
114
107
109
100
132
95
104
123
AT
PL
270
273
268
253
277
287
260
298
287
PT
RO
SI
103(d)
46(d)
53(d)
33(d)
56(d)
46(d)
41(d)
68(d)
45(d)
SK
FI
65(d)
74(d)
78(d)
66(d)
77(d)
62(d)
65(d)
73(d)
86(d)
SE
116(d)
113(d)
124(d)
111(d)
108(d)
113(d)
106(d)
112(d)
87(d)

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