Prevalence of recent intimate partner violence (IPV) among ever-partnered women aged 15–49 years by country, grouped by world region
Country | ISO | Year | IPV in the past 12 months (%) | Sample size | |||
Physical | Sexual | Psychological | Physical and/or sexual | ||||
West and Central Africa (12 countries) | |||||||
Burkina Faso | BFA | 2010 | 8.9 | 1.1 | 7.2 | 9.2 | 10 009 |
Cameroon | CMR | 2011 | 28.0 | 11.2 | 32.1 | 31.4 | 4006 |
Chad | TCD | 2014 | 15.5 | 6.8 | 16.3 | 17.4 | 3814 |
Congo DR | COD | 2013 | 30.3 | 19.8 | 29.4 | 36.7 | 5691 |
Cote d’Ivoire | CIV | 2011 | 21.3 | 5.7 | 16.1 | 23.0 | 5018 |
Gabon | GAB | 2012 | 28.3 | 11.8 | 26.6 | 31.2 | 4147 |
Gambia | GMB | 2013 | 6.9 | 1.1 | 8.5 | 7.3 | 3542 |
Mali | MLI | 2012 | 20.7 | 12.1 | 26.2 | 26.6 | 3120 |
Nigeria | NGA | 2013 | 9.3 | 3.7 | 15.3 | 10.9 | 22 305 |
Senegal | SEN | 2017 | 8.9 | 5.9 | 9.4 | 12.2 | 2660 |
Sierra Leone | SLE | 2013 | 27.2 | 5.1 | 20.8 | 28.6 | 4315 |
Togo | TGO | 2013 | 10.7 | 4.8 | 24.1 | 12.7 | 5376 |
Eastern and Southern Africa (14 countries) | |||||||
Angola | AGO | 2015 | 24.2 | 6.7 | 24.0 | 25.8 | 7669 |
Burundi | BDI | 2016 | 17.9 | 18.4 | 16.5 | 27.8 | 7366 |
Comoros | COM | 2012 | 4.2 | 1.3 | 6.2 | 4.8 | 2529 |
Ethiopia | ETH | 2016 | 16.9 | 8.3 | 20.2 | 19.7 | 4720 |
Kenya | KEN | 2014 | 22.6 | 9.8 | 23.8 | 25.4 | 4519 |
Malawi | MWI | 2015 | 16.2 | 15.4 | 23.0 | 24.1 | 5406 |
Mozambique | MOZ | 2011 | 25.9 | 6.9 | 29.6 | 27.7 | 5824 |
Namibia | NAM | 2013 | 18.7 | 6.6 | 21.0 | 20.2 | 1449 |
Rwanda | RWA | 2014 | 17.6 | 8.3 | 18.5 | 20.6 | 1908 |
South Africa | ZAF | 2016 | 8.7 | 3.5 | 10.9 | 10.4 | 2354 |
Tanzania | TZA | 2015 | 27.0 | 10.4 | 28.1 | 29.5 | 7597 |
Uganda | UGA | 2016 | 22.3 | 16.4 | 29.3 | 29.6 | 7536 |
Zambia | ZMB | 2013 | 21.3 | 13.0 | 17.8 | 26.5 | 9416 |
Zimbabwe | ZWE | 2015 | 15.2 | 9.3 | 23.5 | 19.8 | 5800 |
Middle East and North Africa (two countries) | |||||||
Egypt | EGY | 2014 | 13.5 | 2.7 | 13.1 | 14.0 | 6693 |
Jordan | JOR | 2017 | 12.7 | 3.3 | 16.1 | 13.8 | 6852 |
Europe and Central Asia (three countries) | |||||||
Armenia | ARM | 2015 | 3.5 | 0.3 | 6.4 | 3.5 | 3540 |
Kyrgyzstan | KGZ | 2012 | 16.9 | 2.8 | 10.4 | 17.1 | 4832 |
Tajikistan | TJK | 2017 | 18.7 | 1.4 | 13.3 | 19.0 | 5313 |
South Asia (five countries) | |||||||
Afghanistan | AFG | 2015 | 45.8 | 6.1 | 34.4 | 46.0 | 21 324 |
India | IND | 2015 | 22.5 | 5.2 | 11.4 | 24.1 | 66 013 |
Maldives | MDV | 2016 | 5.4 | 0.7 | 7.6 | 5.5 | 3388 |
Nepal | NPL | 2016 | 10.0 | 4.0 | 7.7 | 11.2 | 3826 |
Pakistan | PAK | 2017 | 13.6 | 3.6 | 20.6 | 14.5 | 3303 |
East Asia and Pacific (four countries) | |||||||
Cambodia | KHM | 2014 | 9.3 | 3.9 | 17.3 | 10.9 | 3499 |
Myanmar | MMR | 2015 | 10.2 | 2.2 | 10.2 | 11.0 | 3425 |
Philippines | PHL | 2017 | 4.3 | 2.2 | 12.9 | 5.4 | 13 215 |
Timor Leste | TLS | 2016 | 33.1 | 4.8 | 8.9 | 34.6 | 3694 |
Latin America and Caribbean (six countries) | |||||||
Colombia | COL | 2015 | 32.3 | 7.6 | 30.0 | 33.3 | 24 890 |
Dominican Republic | DOM | 2013 | 14.7 | 4.2 | 25.6 | 15.6 | 5803 |
Guatemala | GTM | 2014 | 7.9 | 2.6 | 14.4 | 8.5 | 6512 |
Haiti | HTI | 2016 | 10.0 | 7.0 | 17.8 | 13.8 | 4322 |
Honduras | HND | 2011 | 10.0 | 3.2 | 20.6 | 10.9 | 12 494 |
Peru | PER | 2016 | 10.2 | 2.5 | 10.5 | 10.8 | 21 115 |
In the South Africa DHS Survey, the violence module was administered to women aged 18 years or older. IPV estimates are, therefore, for women aged 18–49 years.
DHS, Demographic and Health Surveys; ISO, International Organization for Standardization.