About 88,900 women and girls were intentionally killed worldwide on the grounds of gender-related factors in 2022, a recent study from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women shows. This is the highest number of such fatalities in a year, in the past 20 years.
Chart 1 | The chart shows the year-wise murder of women/girls (femicide) across the globe for gender-related reasons.