The risk of femicide increases for Black women in America based on the concentration of structural racism where they reside.
Research and Data
Understanding femicide requires confronting its data — the numbers, the patterns, the risk factors, and the research that documents what policy too often ignores. This section brings together original analysis, peer-reviewed research, and data commentary on femicide globally, with particular focus on the relationship between coercive control and intimate partner homicide, the underreporting of femicide in official statistics, and the specific vulnerabilities created by systemic inequality. Content here supports the Coercive Control and Femicide Research Hub.
Firearms kill Black women at rates no other weapon approaches. Nearly three out of four Black female femicide victims die by gunshot. That proportion has climbed 47% since 2011. Guns do not cause femicide. But they determine who survives it.
Black women are most often killed by someone they love, trust, or share a home with. Nine out of ten victims knew their killer.
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the sharpest single-year escalation in Black femicide rates in two decades. Though rates declined slightly from their 2021 peak, they remain 25% higher than pre-pandemic levels–and the federal funding rollbacks of 2025 have removed the infrastructure most likely to reverse that trajectory. The years between 2020 and 2023 represent the most acute phase of the Black femicide…
Black women are killed at rates that expose a crisis rigidly upheld by structural racism. This page documents national femicide rates for Black and white women from 1999 to 2023, drawing on peer-reviewed research, FBI data, and the Violence Policy Center’s annual analysis. Terminology: The Purpose Of The Word Femicide Narcissistic Abuse Rehab narcissisticabuserehab.com Black Femicide Statistics Hub · National…
Two decades of data reveal that Black women face persistently elevated risk of femicide–up to 20 times higher than white women in some states.
PTSD and depression cooccurence is associated with a greater risk of mortality in women through the development of adverse health outcomes.
Statistics show that in every 1000 cases of sexual assault, only 25 perpetrators do jail time. Why is the criminal justice system failing vimctim-survivors?