World Stats on Rape
Dallady
January 14th, 2023
How many rapes are reported in your country?
Example: In the UK one out of every hundred rapes are reported.
RarelyCharlie
January 14th, 2023
@Dallady Difficult question to answer, partly because countries' legal systems don't all agree about how to define rape and how to define reported. Even within a country there are big disagreements.
According to the charity Rape Crisis England & Wales, "5 in 6 women who are raped don’t report – and the same is true for 4 in 5 men." This means around 17 out of every hundred rapes are reported, not one out of every hundred. Then they admit that, "Lots of these survivors tell someone else what happened." So lots of these "unreported" rapes are, in fact, reported, they're just not reported to the authorities.
Charlie