Statistics

By Age

• 44% of victims are under the age of 18
• 80% of victims are under the age of 30
• 15% of victims are under the age of 12

By Gender

• In 2003, 90% of rape victims were women

Reporting

• 60% of sexual assaults go unreported
• 3% of rapists serve time in prison

Assailants

• 2/3 of rapes were committed by someone known to the victim
• 73% of sexual assaults were perpetrated by a non-stranger

• 4 million people over the age of 18 are stalked each year in the United States.
• 3 in 4 stalking victims are stalked by someone they know.
• 30% of stalking victims are stalked by a current or former intimate partner.

• More than 1 in 3 women (35.6%) and more than 1 in 4 men (28.5%) in the United States have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
• 1 in 4 women (24.3%) and 1 in 7 men (13.8%) ages 18 and older in the United States have been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
• Nearly half of all women and men in the United States have experienced psychological aggression by an intimate partner in their lifetime (48.4% and 48.8%, respectively).