Annual number of [female and total] victims of [intimate partner/ domestic/ any] physical violence, as recorded by the police genvio_int_adm_ipv__eige_ipv_victphys

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 physical 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.

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 a form of physical violence.

Greece (EL)

Data on domestic violence refers to domestic violence incidents involving physical violence.

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.

Luxembourg (LU)

Data on domestic violence represents victims in cases of physical domestic violence. They are not necessarily victims of physical domestic violence.

Data on violence in any relationship represents victims in cases of physical violence. They are not necessarily victims of physical violence.

Malta (MT)

Data refers to offences, not victims.

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.

Portugal (PT)

Data on intimate partner violence refers to domestic violence by an intimate partner.

Romania (RO)

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

Slovenia (SI)

Data on intimate partner violence appears to exclude 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)

Data refers to offences, not victims.

Only the years 2020 to 2022 are comparable and have detailed information on the relationship between perpetrators and victims. Statistics on the total number of crimes are available and comparable for the entire period from 2014 to 2022.

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
67214(d)
61662(d)
58060(d)
67223(d)
66425(d)
64659(d)
64816(d)
64193(d)
65662(d)
BG
CZ
4347(d)
3883(d)
4266(d)
5121(d)
DK
15418
13220
13313
14800
14275
13236
12452
10465
10143
DE
621413(d)
517850(d)
571738(d)
589237(d)
EE
IE
19302(d)
16096(d)
14993(d)
18191(d)
16911(d)
16074(d)
14061(d)
14152(d)
12669(d)
EL
ES
184839
159833
139223
166207
159243
159850
153406
153092
158217
FR
408178(d)
369186(d)
373321(d)
350143(d)
324736(d)
310934(d)
HR
4201
3856
3694
2824
2165
2036
1931
1835
1859
IT
99479
94019
89333
99225
94023
92423
88388
89843
93039
CY
LV
824(d)
758(d)
903(d)
968(d)
979(d)
983(d)
1008(d)
1091(d)
1240(d)
LT
9161
8972
10703
13414
16182
12807
11775
10157
10374
LU
4452(d)
4055(d)
3983(d)
3710(d)
3335(d)
HU
12767
12201
12153
10657
MT
NL
AT
PL
PT
RO
SI
4456(d)
3601(d)
4327(d)
4180(d)
4097(d)
3736(d)
3966(d)
3929(d)
4639(d)
SK
FI
39133(d)
34999(d)
34347(d)
35181(d)
34735(d)
34742(d)
34404(d)
34469(d)
33999(d)
SE
63119(d)
62037(d)
62549(d)
62100(d)
62329(d)
63688(d)
67990(d)
67228(d)
67421(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