Statistics on Sexual Violence in Ghana

  • 27% of women have been sexually assaulted in their lifetime
  • 1 in 3 women had been fondled or touched against their will
  • For 2 in 10 women their first experience of sex was against their will
  • 2 in 5 women are harassed or coerced when they refuse their partners sex
  • 3 in 10 women are forced by their male partners to have sex
  • 7% of women had been forced to touch a man’s private parts
  • 6% of women had been threatened by a school-teacher or principal that their schooling would suffer if they did not have sex
  • 4% of women had been threatened with demands for sex before offered a job or having a favour done
  • Studies indicate that women are most at risk of sexual violence, in all its forms, are between the ages of 10-18 years