Are Danish women the most abused women in Europe?

One in three women report physical or sexual abuse since age of 15, with largest number of victims in Denmark

• A total of 43,000 women were interviewed – 1,500 in Denmark.
•  One in three women reported having been the victim of physical and/or sexual abuse at some point in her life.
•  8% reported having been sexually assaulted by their partner, ex-partner or a third party within the last year, and 5% had been raped.
•  12% of all Danish women between the ages of 18 and 77 had been physically or sexually assaulted by their partner at some point, compared to an EU average of 8%.
•   Every second Danish women reported that she had been the abused or assaulted by her partner, ex-partner or a third party at some time in her life, compared to one in three in the EU in general.
•   4% of Danish women reported having been abused by a partner within the last year, compared with 3% in the EU in general.