Lifetime Physical and/or Sexual Intimate Partner Violence :20.4 % (1)
Physical and/or Sexual Intimate Partner Violence in the last 12 months : 6 % (2)
Lifetime Non-Partner Sexual Violence : 4.1 % (3)
Child Marriage :9.8 % (4)
Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
Gender Inequality Index Rank :92 (5)
Global Gender Gap Index Rank :110 (6)
Sri Lanka | 2019
Type of Measure : Research and statistical data > Dedicated violence against women survey
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
Sri Lanka | 2016
Type of Measure : Research and statistical data > Dedicated violence against women survey
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
Sri Lanka | 2015
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
Sri Lanka | 2015
Type of Measure : Policies > Inclusion of violence against women in other national plan/strategy
Form of Violence : Sexual harassment, Sexual violence
Sri Lanka | 2015
Type of Measure : Institutional mechanisms
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
Sri Lanka | 2015
Type of Measure : Administrative data > Justice
Form of Violence : Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence
Sri Lanka | 2015
Type of Measure : Budgets > Government allocation
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
Sri Lanka | 2015
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
Sri Lanka | 2015 | 2018
Type of Measure : Policies > Inclusion of violence against women in other national plan/strategy
Form of Violence : Trafficking
Sri Lanka | 2015
Type of Measure : Violence against women > Constitutional provision
Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls
(1) Proportion of ever-partnered women aged 15+ years experiencing intimate partner physical and/or sexual violence at least once in their lifetime. Source: Department of Census and Statistics (2020), Women’s Wellbeing Survey – 2019 Findings from Sri Lanka's first dedicated National Survey on Violence against Women and Girls.
(2) Proportion of ever-partnered women aged 15+ years experiencing intimate partner physical and/or sexual violence in the last 12 months. Source: Department of Census and Statistics (2020), Women’s Wellbeing Survey – 2019 Findings from Sri Lanka's first dedicated National Survey on Violence against Women and Girls.
(3) Proportion of women aged 15+ years experiencing sexual violence perpetrated by someone other than an intimate partner at least once in their lifetime. Source: Department of Census and Statistics (2020), Women’s Wellbeing Survey – 2019 Findings from Sri Lanka's first dedicated National Survey on Violence against Women and Girls.
(4) Percentage of women aged 20 to 24 years who were first married or in union before age 18. Source: UNICEF global databases, 2021, based on DHS, MICS and other nationally representative surveys.
(5) The Gender Inequality Index is a composite measure reflecting inequality between women and men in three different dimensions: reproductive health (maternal mortality ratio and adolescent birth rate), empowerment (share of parliamentary seats held by women and share of population with at least some secondary education), and labour market participation (labour force participation rate). Source: United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2021/2022.
(6) The Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education and health criteria. Source: World Economic Forum, the Global Gender Gap Report 2022.