Table 1

Country	Prevalence of past 12-month experience of physical and or sexual IPV (%)*	WHO region	GINI coefficient†	High/ middle/ low income‡	Armed conflict since 1990s
Angola	25.9 (DHS 2016)	African	0.513	Lower-middle	Yes
Burundi	27.8 (DHS 2017)	African	0.386	Low	Yes
Cameroon	32.7 (MICS 2014)	African	0.466	Lower-middle	Yes
Central African Republic	26.3 (MICS 2006)	African	0.562	Low	Yes
DRC	36.8 (DHS 2014)	African	0.421	Low	Yes
Equatorial Guinea	43.6 (DHS 2011)	African	Not available	Upper middle	Yes
Gabon	31.5 (DHS 2012)	African	0.38	Upper middle	Yes
Liberia	36.3 (DHS 2007)	African	0.353	Low	Yes
Sierra Leone	28.7 (DHS 2013)	African	0.357	Low	Yes
Sao Tome and Principe	27.9 (DHS 2009)	African	0.563	Lower middle	No
Tanzania	29.6 (DHS 2016)	African	0.405	Lower middle	Yes
Uganda	29.9 (DHS 2016)	African	0.428	Low	Yes
Zambia	26.7 (DHS 2014)	African	0.571	Lower middle	No
Afghanistan	46.1 (DHS 2015)	Eastern Mediterranean	Not available	Low	Yes
Bangladesh	28.8 (UNFPA 2015)	South-East Asian	0.324	Lower middle	Yes
Timor-Leste	34.6 (DHS 2016)	South-East Asian	0.287	Lower middle	Yes
Bolivia	27.1 (PAHO 2016)	The Americas	0.416	Lower middle	Yes
Fiji	29.7 (National Research on Women’s Health and Life Experiences 2011)	Western Pacific	0.367	Upper middle	Yes
Kiribati	36.1 (Family Health and Safety Study 2008)	Western Pacific	0.37	Lower middle	Yes
Micronesia	26.0 (Family Health and Safety Study 2014)	Western Pacific	0.401	Lower middle	No
Solomon Islands	41.8 (Family Health and Safety Study 2008)	Western Pacific	0.371	Lower middle	No
Tuvalu	25.0 (DHS 2007)	Western Pacific	0.391	Upper middle	No
Vanuatu	44.0 (National Survey on Women’s Lives and Family Relationships 2009)	Western Pacific	0.376	Lower middle	No

Table 1: Data collected by WHO as part of the commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Data on intimate partner violence. Indicator 5.2.1, https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/unsdg.

Table 2

WHO REGION	Intimate partner violence and/or non-partner sexual violence (%)	Lower – upper UI (%)
World	31	27–36
Low- and middle-income countries and areas in:
African Region	36	32–41
Region of the Americas	33	27–38
Eastern Mediterranean Region	33	26–40
European Region	26	21–31
South-East Asia Region	34	26–43
Western Pacific Region	25	16–38
High-income countries and areas	30	24–37

Table 2: Global and regional prevalence estimates of physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) or non-partner sexual violence (NPSV) or both among all women aged 15-49 years, by World Health Organization (WHO) region, 2018a.

Tables at a glance

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Figures at a glance

Figure 1

FIGURE 1

Figure 1: Base on Krug, E, et al (2003)