Sharp rise in global gender-based violence from 2020 to 2023

In 2020, some 47,000 women and girls were killed by their intimate partners or other family members. This meant that, on average, a woman or girl was killed by someone in her own family every 11 minutes. This number nearly doubled to 85,000 women and girls intentionally killed in 2023, equating to one woman killed every 10 minutes.