This year’s edition of the Annual Socioeconomic Report on Women (Raseam) reported that in 2022, 67,626 incidents of rape were recorded among women in Brazil, which according to the document, is equivalent to one rape every 8 minutes in the country. The data was released this Wednesday (24), by the Ministry of Women.
According to the document, the Southeast, the most populous region of the country, had the highest number of rape incidents, totaling 22,917 cases. Next was the South Region, with 14,812 occurrences. In the Northeast, 14,165 rapes were recorded; in the North, 8,060 cases; and in the Central-West, 7,672 episodes of this type of violence.
Raseam compiles research statistics and administrative records from different sources. Data on the rape of women, for example, comes from the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. The report also uses information produced by the Ministry of Health, Sports, Electoral Justice, National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (Inep) and (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics I (BGE).
Data from the Notifiable Diseases Information System (Sinan) of the Ministry of Health, counted in outpatient and hospital care, totaled 344,242 records of sexual, domestic and other forms of violence. Seven out of ten of these episodes occurred against women.
Health statistics also reveal that the main location of aggression against adult women, aged 20 to 59, that year was their own home: 73% of episodes, compared to 14.5% of incidents on public roads and 3.2% % in bars and restaurants. Regarding marital status, 44.7% of women victims of violence in the same age group were single; 42.4% were married; and 10.6% were single.
Black women
The 2022 Population Census found that the largest group in Brazil, across color and gender, is made up of black women (brown and black), 54.5%. They are also the group most exposed to sexual, domestic and other forms of violence. Health data show that, that year, 47.9% of victims were black and 11.9% were black – a total of 59.8%. More than 38% of the women attacked were white and almost 1% of them were indigenous.
The death rate from murder of women in 2022 was 3.2 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants. The age group most exposed to homicide are young women, aged 20 to 24 – 6.4 deaths per hundred thousand inhabitants. According to the Mortality Information System (Ministry of Health), 66.7% of the victims were black – 60.3% were mixed race; and 6.4% black. The total number of black women registered was more than double that of white women: 32%.
