0.32
women and girls killed by a partner or family member, per 100,000 women and girls, 2024
High trust, 80 of 100 All the counted sources are of one kind (police and justice records), so they share the same blind spots.
- UNODC
- DGVG
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| Year | UNODC Data Portal, homicide victims by relationship to the perpetrator | Spain, Government Delegation against Gender Violence: femicides by partners or ex-partners plus family femicides |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 0.42 | – |
| 2011 | 0.31 | – |
| 2012 | 0.3 | – |
| 2013 | 0.31 | – |
| 2014 | 0.29 | – |
| 2015 | 0.32 | – |
| 2016 | 0.28 | – |
| 2017 | 0.27 | – |
| 2018 | 0.3 | – |
| 2019 | 0.28 | – |
| 2020 | 0.32 | – |
| 2021 | 0.25 | – |
| 2022 | 0.33 | 0.3 |
| 2023 | 0.28 | 0.29 |
| 2024 | 0.32 | 0.24 |
| 2025 | – | 0.27 |
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Spain among 87 countries
54 have a higher figure and 32 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
- Spain
- When
- UNODC 2024, DGVG 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) | 0.322024 | 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, 2024, per 100,000 female population (UN World Population Prospects 2024).Count: 77 (intimate partner 49, other family member 28), out of 111 female homicide victims. UNODC source code: CTS. Latest year with a value. Raw file: data_cts_intentional_homicide.xlsx (UNODC, last update 12 July 2026). | 5 of 5 checks
| 71% |
Spain, Government Delegation against Gender Violence: femicides by partners or ex-partners plus family femicidesDelegación del Gobierno contra la Violencia de Género, Ministerio de Igualdad · Police and justice recordsRetrieved 2026-10-26 | 0.272025 | Sum of two DGVG counts for 2025: women killed by a current or former partner under the 2004 gender-violence law (48) and "family femicides", women killed by a male relative other than a partner (17), 65 in all, 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).Both counts take only killings by men that DGVG classes as sexist or misogynist, so killings by women and family killings without that motive are left out, unlike the UN definition. The family count starts in 2022. Both are provisional. Partner count: DGVG fact sheet 'Mujeres víctimas mortales por violencia de género en España a manos de sus parejas o exparejas', data updated 23 April 2026, p. 1: chart 1 (bar labels per year) and Tabla 2.1 (TOTAL 48 for 2025). Provisional; 2 cases from 2025 under investigation on 23 April 2026. Family count: https://violenciagenero.igualdad.gob.es/wp-content/uploads/Ficha_Otros_feminicidios_2025_Act_2026_09.pdf, DGVG fact sheet 'Feminicidios fuera de la pareja o expareja en España. Año 2025', data updated 6 October 2026, p. 1: chart 1, 'F. familiares' bar segments by half-year (2022: 14+9, 2023: 8+4, 2024: 6+4, 2025: 12+5); chart 2 gives 17 for 2025, and table 4.4 gives father/grandfather 1, son/grandson 13, other relative 3. Both typed into scripts/women-killed-by-partners-or-family.manual.json. Definitions: https://violenciagenero.igualdad.gob.es/violenciaencifras/victimasmortales/notas-metodologicas/ | 4 of 5 checks
| 29% |
- UNODC71%
- DGVG29%
How the trust score was worked out
- Quality37.7 / 40
How well the sources are made
- Agreement20.6 / 30
How close the sources are to each other
- Independence12 / 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.
- Blind spot: every counted source is the same kind
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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