Some statistics on rape, for some reason Pakistan was omitted[Wikipedia shows it, and several other countries are up there, maybe they were trying to make a point about this being a worldwide problem
10 Countries With Highest Rape Crime
Joachim Greifswald 10 Countries With Highest Rape Crime, 10 Countries With Maximum Rape Crimes, domestic violence, rape, Highest Rape Rate in the World
“One woman in 20 (5 %) has been raped since the age of 15, either by a partner or by someone else. Thinking about all women aged 18 to 74 years in the 28 EU Member States, this corresponds to more than 9 million women who have been raped since they were 15 years old, either by a partner or another person. Furthermore, according to the survey, 0.8 % of women (aged 18–74 years) have been raped in the past 12 months, which corresponds to some 1.5 million women being raped in the EU in one year.” states Violence against women: an EU-wide survey
We have listed down 10 countries with highest rape crime in the world. The data has been heavily researched and collected from various sources and research papers. The article includes sources to all the statistics used. Please feel free to write us if you would like to share more knowledge about this heinous crime. We would appreciate that.
10. Denmark & Finland
According to NORDIC report : Reported offences per 100,000 of the population were 429 in Denmark,
Around 500 rapes are reported to the Danish police annually. Studies reveal that only a small minority of all rapes are actually reported. According to a 2014 study published by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Denmark had the highest prevalence rate of physical and sexual violence against women in Europe.
Amnesty International criticized Denamrk for inadequate laws in regard to sexual violence in a 2008 report.
Sexual offences (Danish: Seksualforbrydelser) are defined in the Danish Penal Code, Chapter 24, Section 216-236. References in legislation to marriage were removed following the 2013 amendment (previously providing for a reduced sentence or a pardon), and sexual acts performed on victims in a helpless state now also count as rape.[82]
In 1999, Denmark established its first rape crisis centre.
9. Zimbabwe
According to latest statistics supplied by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Office (ZimStat) at least 15 women are raped daily in the country.
The ZimStat report, titled Quarterly Digest of Statistics, says 2 195 cases of rape were reported in the first five months of 2012. 1 610 cases of indecent assault were recorded in 2011, with 2 484 and 1 124 in 2010 and 2009 respectively. Anele Ndebele of the Matabeleland Aids Council said the statistics were a cause for concern as it invariably meant there was an increase in the transmission of HIV.
8. Australia
According to news.com.au “Most instances of rape happen behind closed doors, with no witnesses.”
The laws relating to rape have been evolved from the English common law offense of rape in Australia. These laws have gradually changed, especially in the late 20th century.
In Australia the reported rape rate per 100,000 people is relatively high. It came down from 91.6 in the year 2003 to 28.6 (100,000) in 2010.
During the 12 months prior to interview in 2011–12, an estimated 51,200 (0.3%) Australians aged 18 years and over were a victim of sexual assault.
According to NEWS.COM.AU One in six women a victim. AUSTRALIAN women are being sexually assaulted at twice the rate of women worldwide.
7. Canada
According to Statistics Canada, women self-reported 472,000 sexual assaults in 2009 in Canada. A survey on sexual violence was conducted by Statistics Canada in 1992, which involved a national random sample of 12,300 women (Johnson and Sacco, 1995). The findings of the research showed that over one in three women had experienced a sexual assault out of which 6% of sexual assaults were reported to the police.
6. New Zealand
New Zealand is famous for his breathtaking landscapes, which got captured in many movies including the “Lord of the Rings“-trilogy. But the country is also in the list with the most rapes in the world. In 2013 a group called “Road Busters” became “famous” for gang-raping girls, they met on the internet. They not even gang-raped the underages girls who also got inbriated by the young men, but also showed the videos on the internet. According to an article from the New Zealand Herald in 2012 the crime rate in the country decreased, while the reports of sexual abuses increased up to 15 % (and doubled in schools).
5. India
Indian is worldwide “famous” for the many reports about (gang)rapes, in which most of the victims also got killed. But why is Indian not on first place, if the reports are true? Because mostly they are exaggerated by the (British) media. Statistically seen there are 2 rapes per 100000 inhabitants in India, but almost 29 rapes per 100000 inhabitants in Great Britain. British media would now maybe say that this has to do with the many Indians living there. But due to a probable huge amount of unknown cases, many newspapers like to report, that Indian is (after Afghanistan) the most dangerous country to women and girls. Why? There are several reasons. One is most likely the patriarchal structure in which the man thinks he is able to do everything and a woman is not more worth than her uterus.
4. England & Wales
Its hard to find official statistics about rape cases in England and Wales. That”s why we sometimes have to trust reports from the police and newspapers. According to an article from “The Guardian“ in 2015, the number of rapes in England and Wales have risen by 31 % to 24000 victims in only one year. Due to the newspaper, the increase stays in relation to the greater willingness by the victims to go to the police.
Like in almost every country its very dangerous for a woman to travel alone in a taxi. But in Great Britain and Wales the numbers of sexual abuses in taxis seem very high and many cases don’t even get reported. At least 1225 cases got officially reported by the police in England and Wales, which include sexual abuse and rape by a taxidriver. This makes 22 sexual abuses per week only in London. What can someone do to avoid driving alone in a taxi? Sam Mason, a British radio and television presenter once called a taxi company and asked for a female, non-Asian driver for her young daughter. After that she got fired by her employer, the BBC, because of her so-called “racist views“.
3. USA
Like in almost every other country, the majority of the actual rapes are unreported. Due to an amount of cases of rapes in US universities, there have been several debates about allowing people to carry weapons in their bags, when they go to campus. A girl from Harvard University vent her spleen by a letter, written in March 2014, in which she says that she was a victim of sexual harassment and the HU doesn’t support her in any way. No matter what, sexual frustrated fellow students show, that even in an American elite society, the women can’t feel safe.
Read Letter from girl (Harvard University):
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/ ... lt/?page=1 . Read Harvard University Sexual and Gender-Based Harassment Policy: Here
2. Sweden
Sweden is the “rape-metropolis” of the west. The even worse thing is that in many cases, the rapist gets acquitted. But if now some people think that the majority of the rapists are Swedish, they lie wrong. The media likes to hide the fact, that in many cases the offender or better the offenders is/ are from Somalia. Some sources say that in 1975 the number of rapes in the prior “closed” country increased up to 1472 %. Why? Some sources suppose to know the reason and say that in this year, the Swedish parliament decided to make Sweden multicultural. The “result” is that in 1975, 421 cases got officially reported, and 6620 in the year 2011.
1. South Africa
South Africa has a sad but true world record: statistically every 9-10 minutes a young girl, a grown up woman or an old lady gets raped. In some regions, the male dominating role is so significant, that every fourth woman got at least once in her life forced to sex. Studies exist in which 30 % of the South African men admitted, that they first sexual experienced was based on a rape.
Due to official reports, every year 55000 girls and women get raped in South Africa, but these are only the official records. A study from Neil Andersson and Ari Ho-Foster revealed that 40 % of all schoolgirls have already been raped. In the study, 20 % said that a teacher sexually abused them and another 28 % got violated by their own classmates.
So what is the reason behind the huge amount of rapes every year and every day in this country? Many men think they behave legitimate and that women have to follow their rules. But these are only two of many other reasons. Another main reason is lack of education: some teenagers in South Africa don’t even know what actually a rape is.
Some Countries Where Marital Rape is Not Explicitly Outlawed:
EUROPE:
Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Germany, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Spain.
ASIA:
Indonesia, Myanmar, Nauru, PNG, Samoa, Singapore, Japan
SOUTH ASIA:
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan
LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN:
Belize, Ecuador, Jamaica, Panama, Uruguay.
MIDDLE EAST:
None explicitly outlaw marital rape
AFRICA:
Botswana, CAR, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria.