In 2022, Brazil recorded 67,626 occurrences of rape against women. “This amounts to approximately one rape every 8 minutes in the country,” reveals the Annual Socioeconomic Report on Women (Raseam), released this Wednesday (04/24) in Brasília by the Ministry of Women.
According to the document, the Southeast, the most populous region of Brazil, recorded the highest number of rapes, totaling 22,917 cases. The South closely followed with 14,812 incidents. In the Northeast, 14,165 rapes were recorded; in the North, 8,060 cases; and in the Midwest, 7,672 episodes of this type of violence were documented.
Raseam compiles statistics from research and administrative records from various sources. For example, the data on rape of women comes from the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, supplemented by the Continuous National Household Sample Survey from the government agency IBGE. This integration highlights the prevalence of this violence against women, evident in the perception of risk. In 2021, one in five women interviewed reported feeling “medium or high risk of being a victim of sexual assault.”
The report emphasizes that “violence against women functions as a social institution, serving as a mechanism to maintain relations of domination and exploitation.”
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The Annual Socioeconomic Report on Women covers 270 indicators across seven thematic areas. The study reveals that black women face more adverse conditions compared to white women and men of all ethnicities.
Data from the 2022 Demographic Census, as stated in the report, indicates that the largest demographic group in Brazil, transcending color and gender, is composed of black women (brown and black), making up 54.5% of the population. Furthermore, they are disproportionately affected by sexual, domestic, and various other forms of violence. Statistics from the Ministry of Health, also presented in the report, underline this disparity, revealing that in 2022, 59.8% of assault victims were black, while over 38% were white and nearly 1% were indigenous.
Source: Agência Brasil