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 rape, domestic rape, and rape 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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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). |
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Bulgaria (BG) |
Data on total victims of rape in any relationship only refers to female victims. |
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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. |
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Ireland (IE) |
Data refers to victims where the primary incident was classed as rape. |
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Greece (EL) |
Data on intimate partner violence refers to the number of intimate partner relationships which involved rape. 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 (e.g. housemates are not included). |
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Cyprus (CY) |
Data on total victims of rape in any relationship only refers to female victims. |
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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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Lithuania (LT) |
Data on total victims of intimate partner rape only refers to female victims. Data on total victims of domestic rape only refers to female victims. |
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Luxembourg (LU) |
Data on domestic violence represents victims in cases of domestic violence that include rape. They are not necessarily victims of domestic rape. Data on violence in any relationship represents victims in cases of rape. They are not necessarily victims of that rape. |
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Romania (RO) |
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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Slovakia (SK) |
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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. |
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Sweden (SE) |
Data refers to offences, not victims. The statistics have been expanded (more detailed) in steps for the years 2019, 2020 and 2022. This expansion has made the statistics more accurate, among other things with the aim of synchronizing the statistics to international standards. Because of these major changes, the statistics for the entire period 2014 to 2022 are not comparable. |
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 |