Table 1

Regional and national distribution of women’s ever experience of any form of IPV (emotional, physical, or sexual)* across 29 low-income and middle-income countries surveyed as part of the DHS (n=95 159)

Country	Year	Sample size for women’s survey	Interviewed in Domestic Violence Module	Total women in analysis data set†	Total women in analysis data set who reported any IPV
Country	Year	Sample size for women’s survey	Interviewed in Domestic Violence Module	Total women in analysis data set†	n	%
Total		796 105	342 086	95 159	34 572	36.3
Central Asia		17 864	11 569	3563	1000	28.1
Kyrgyz Republic	2012	8208	6022	1808	569	31.5
Tajikistan	2012	9656	5547	1755	431	24.6
Latin America and Caribbean		100 166	104 199	17 824	6739	37.8
Colombia	2010	53 521	52 952	9004	3331	37.0
Honduras	2011	22 757	15 833	4443	1522	34.3
Peru	2012	23 888	35 414	4377	1886	43.1
North Africa, West Asia, Europe		44 487	20 908	5360	1485	27.7
Azerbaijan	2006	8444	5617	1299	274	21.1
Egypt	2014	21 762	6693	2607	816	31.3
Moldova	2005	7440	5695	1012	293	29.0
Ukraine	2007	6841	2903	442	102	23.1
South and South-East Asia		181 332	98 845	25 056	9390	37.5
Cambodia	2014	17 578	4307	1178	322	27.3
India	2005	124 385	83 703	19 906	7520	37.8
Nepal	2011	12 674	4197	1224	411	33.6
Pakistan	2012	13 558	3687	1609	672	41.8
Timor Leste	2009	13 137	2951	1139	465	40.8
Sub-Saharan Africa		226 128	106 565	43 356	15 958	36.8
Burkina Faso	2010	17 087	11 363	5444	913	16.8
Comoros	2012	5329	3341	1082	124	11.5
Ghana	2008	4916	2442	755	304	40.3
Kenya	2014	31 079	5657	2042	928	45.4
Malawi	2010	23 020	6229	2987	1137	38.1
Mali	2012	10 424	3459	1756	808	46.0
Mozambique	2011	13 745	6835	2789	1367	49.0
Namibia	2011	9176	2931	520	185	35.6
Nigeria	2013	38 948	27 634	11 035	3021	27.4
Rwanda	2005	11 321	4066	1768	671	38.0
Sierra Leone	2013	16 658	5185	1965	1026	52.2
Tanzania	2010	10 139	7047	2945	1319	44.8
Uganda	2011	8674	2056	945	577	61.1
Zambia	2013	16 441	11 778	5183	2589	50.0
Zimbabwe	2010	9171	6542	2140	989	46.2

*Sample restricted to ever-partnered women and girls who completed the Reproductive Health Calendar and who responded to any question related to physical, sexual or emotional IPV.
†Pakistan 2012 DHS did not measure sexual IPV; Colombia 2010 and Rwanda 2005 DHS did not measure emotional IPV.
DHS, Demographic and Health Surveys; IPV, intimate partner violence.