Stalking Statistics*

* From the Family Violence Prevention Fund
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• Annually in the United States, 503,485 women are stalked by an intimate partner.¹
• Seventy-eight percent of stalking victims are women. Women are significantly more likely than men (60 percent and 30 percent, respectively) to be stalked by intimate partners.2
• Eighty percent of women who are stalked by former husbands are physically assaulted by that partner and 30 percent are sexually assaulted by that partner.³

¹Patricia Tjaden and Nancy Thoennes, Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence, National Institute of Justice, 2000
²Center for Policy Research, Stalking in America, July 1997
³Center for Policy Research, Stalking in America, July 1997