0.29
women and girls killed by a partner or family member, per 100,000 women and girls, 2025
Moderate trust, 63 of 100 Only Kripos counts: UNODC republishes it, so there is nothing independent to check it against.
- UNODC
- Kripos
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| Year | UNODC Data Portal, homicide victims by relationship to the perpetrator | Kripos, national homicide overview (Nasjonal drapsoversikt 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | – | 0.43 |
| 2016 | – | 0.38 |
| 2017 | – | 0.31 |
| 2018 | – | 0.23 |
| 2019 | 0.45 | 0.45 |
| 2020 | 0.38 | 0.38 |
| 2021 | – | 0.3 |
| 2022 | – | 0.48 |
| 2023 | – | 0.58 |
| 2024 | – | 0.61 |
| 2025 | – | 0.29 |
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Norway among 87 countries
58 have a higher figure and 27 a lower one. Definitions differ between countries, and their years run from 2009 to 2025.
What this number counts
- Counts
- Women and girls killed by a current or former intimate partner or a family member, per 100,000 women and girls
- Where
- Norway
- When
- UNODC 2020, Kripos 2025 (one year, not an average)
Where the number comes from (2 sources)
| Source | Figure and year | Definition | Quality | Counts for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
UNODC Data Portal, homicide victims by relationship to the perpetratorUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) · Police and justice recordsRetrieved 2026-10-26 · Data (Excel file) | 0.382020 | Female victims of intentional homicide (ICCS 0101) killed by a current or former intimate partner or a family member (blood relatives, relatives by marriage or adoption, and household members), all ages, 2020, per 100,000 female population (UN World Population Prospects 2024).Count: 10, out of 15 female homicide victims. UNODC source code: SDG/External. Latest year with a value. Raw file: data_cts_intentional_homicide.xlsx (UNODC, last update 12 July 2026). UNODC's 2020 count (10) is the same as the Kripos count for 2020, so this value comes from the same national records and is not counted as a separate source. | 5 of 5 checks
| Not counted |
Kripos, national homicide overview (Nasjonal drapsoversikt 2025)Kripos, Norwegian National Criminal Investigation Service (police) · Police and justice recordsRetrieved 2026-10-26 | 0.292025 | Women and girls killed in Norway in 2025 in cases of intentional or premeditated homicide (Penal Code section 275; section 233 of the 1902 code), solved or not, whose killer was a current or former spouse or cohabitant, a current or former boyfriend or girlfriend, a parent, a child or another relative.Count: 8 of 11 female victims (spouse or cohabitant (current or former) 3; boyfriend or girlfriend (current or former) 2; killed by a parent 0; killed by a son or daughter 2; other relative 1), divided by the UN World Population Prospects 2024 female population on 1 July (the population UNODC uses, so the rate differs from the UNODC line only through the count; values after 2023 are WPP projections). Raw file: nasjonal-drapsoversikt-2025.pdf, Kripos, Drap i Norge 2015-2025 (Nasjonal drapsoversikt), section 4.6, table 'Kvinnelige ofre i perioden 2015-2024 (N=141) og i 2025 (N=11) fordelt etter relasjon til gjerningspersonen', p. 18. A dash in the table is 0. Values typed into scripts/women-killed-by-partners-or-family.manual.json. Kripos counts boyfriends and girlfriends separately from partners; both are included here, as in the UN definition of intimate partner. | 4 of 5 checks
| 100% |
- Kripos100%
Shown but not counted: UNODC (republishes Kripos).
How the trust score was worked out
- Quality32 / 40
How well the sources are made
- Agreement15 / 30
Unknown with one source, so set to half
- Independence6 / 20
How many separate ways the number was measured
- Freshness10 / 10
How recent the newest data is
Who reports it, and since when
No source of these kinds: death and health registers, independent count.
- Single source: nothing to check it against
- UNODC: no figure here after 2020, while others reach 2025
figure no figure here, inside its range no later figure recorded change
Why the numbers differ
- Many countries do not record the relationship between victim and killer, or record it for only some cases. Where most relationships are unknown, the recorded partner or family count is a floor, and a low rate can mean missing information rather than few killings.
- Definitions differ: some national statistics count only current or former partners, some count boyfriends separately, and some count only killings by men; the UN definition covers partners, relatives and household members of either sex.
- Feminicide or femicide as a legal category (as in Mexico and much of Latin America) is not the same as killings by partners and family: it covers gender-related killings by anyone, and partner killings filed under another crime are left out.
- National counts and UNODC can show different years: UNODC publishes what governments report to it, often a year or more after national figures appear.
- UNODC and UN Women estimate that about 50,000 women and girls (44,400 to 55,500) were killed by a partner or family member worldwide in 2024, around 1.2 per 100,000 women and girls. The estimate fills gaps by imputation, from data for 117 countries or territories. (source, retrieved 2026-10-26)
Common mistakes
- Reading a near-zero UNODC rate as near-zero violence. In some countries, such as Mexico and Colombia, the relationship to the killer is unknown for almost all female victims, so the partner and family count captures only a small part of what happened.
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