Global crime stats
Accurate global totals for rape do not exist due to extreme underreporting, stigma, and varying legal definitions, but lifetime and childhood metrics reveal an immense scale
According to global prevalence estimates released by the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 840 million women (or 30% of women aged 15 and older) worldwide have been subjected to physical or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or both in their lifetimes.
According to global prevalence estimates released by UNICEF, 370 million girls and women worldwide were subjected to rape or contact sexual assault during childhood.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) provides highly tracked annual global homicide statistics
440,000 to 458,000 victims are intentionally murdered worldwide each year.
52 people lose their lives to homicidal violence every single hour across the globe.
Over 2,000 major documented wars have been cataloged for the past 2,000 years.
The 20th century alone accounts for at least 108 million to 187 million of these total war deaths.
World War II remains the densest single conflict in this timeline, causing an estimated 66 million deaths in less than a decade
The scale of human violence throughout history is staggering
True, absolute "world peace"—defined as a calendar year with zero active wars anywhere on Earth—has likely never occurred in recorded human history