Sexual Violence Statistics

In the US, over half of women and almost 1 in 3 men have experienced sexual violence involving physical contact during their lifetime (CDC) 

More than 4 in 5 female rape survivors reported that they were first raped before age 25 and almost half were first raped as a minor (CDC)

Women and racial and ethnic minority groups experience a higher burden of sexual violence (CDC)

Recent estimates put the lifetime cost of rape at $122,461 per survivor, including medical costs, lost productivity, criminal justice activities, and other costs (CDC)

Every 68 seconds, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted. And every 9 minutes, that victim is a child. (RAINN & USDOJ)

Nearly 1 in 10 women has been raped by an intimate partner (CDC)

7 out of 10 rapes are committed by someone who knew the victim (RAINN)

82% of sexual assaults committed by a friend or acquaintance are not reported to the police (RAINN & USDOJ)

Only 25 out of every 1,000 perpetrators will end up in prison. (RAINN)

1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted while in college (NSVRC)

15,000-19,000 people with developmental disabilities are raped each year in in the U.S.(NCDSV)

1 out of 10 rape victims are men (RAINN)

44% of sexual assault and rape victims are under the age of 18 (USDOJ)

Victims of sexual assault are 3 times more likely to suffer from depression, 6 times more likely to suffer from PTSD, 13 times more likely to abuse alcohol, 26 times more likely to abuse drugs, and 4 times more likely to contemplate suicide (WHO)

63% of men who admitted to campus rape/attempted rape say they committed an average of 6 rapes (NSVRC)

28% of male victims of rape experience their first rape when they were 10 years of age or younger (CDC)

Women who have been raped in the military have a higher rate of PTSD than men who’ve been in combat (DOJ)

47% of transgender people are sexually assaulted at some point in their life (HRC)

Sexual violence affects Black women at high rates. More than 20% of Black women are raped during their lifetimes—a higher share than among women overall, which is 18% (CDC/IWPR.org)