By The Numbers: Sexual Assault Statistics

Sexual Assault definition (Planned Parenthood Action Fund)

Sexual Assault definition (Planned Parenthood Action Fund)

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and I couldn’t let the month pass without sharing some important statistics around sexual assault. They’re not the most fun stats, but they’re very important.

  • 1 in 5 women will be raped within their lifetime.
  • 51%+ of female rape victims were raped by an intimate partner.
  • 1 in 71 men will be raped within their lifetime.
  • 52%+ of male rape victims were raped by an acquaintance.
  • An estimated 17.7M women have been raped since 1998.
  • 21% of trans college students have been sexually assaulted.
  • American Indians are twice as likely to experience sexual assault than other races.
  • 49%+ of multiracial women will experience sexual assault in their lifetime.
  • Women and men with intellectual disabilities are seven times more likely to be the victims of sexual assaults than women and men without intellectual disabilities.
  • 80.6K inmates in jails and prisons experience sexual violence.

#ThrowbackThursday: Sexual Assault Statistics, 2016

Sexual Assault graphic (The Daily Orange)

Sexual Assault graphic (The Daily Orange)

Syracuse University’s student newspaper The Daily Orange published this graphic two years ago to mark Sexual Assault Awareness Month. (That’s April, FYI.) The graphic brings awareness to data centered on sexual assaults on public and private college campuses.

A couple of these stats are especially chilling: 90% of victims do not report the sexual assault. And the victim knows the perpetrator in 80% of sexual assault cases.

So. Many. Problems. Here.