Domestic violence jumps by 5% with 285,000 victims in 2025 in France

The Ministerial Statistical Service for Internal Security (SSMSI) published this Thursday the figures for victims of domestic violence recorded by the various internal security services in 2025. Bad figures, showing a significant increase in the number of people who are victims of their spouse or ex-spouse.

Together, the police and gendarmerie recorded 285,000 victims of domestic violence in 2025. An increase of 5% compared to 2024. According to the SSMSI, the number of victims of such acts has never decreased since 2016, it has barely remained stable once, between 2023 and 2024. Over this nine-year period, this represents an average increase of almost 10%. every year.

Women victims, men perpetrators

The SSMSI report also shows that “two thirds of domestic violence consists of physical violence”, 31% is verbal or psychological violence and 5% is sexual violence. Unsurprisingly, 84% of registered victims are women and, logically, the overwhelming majority of those accused of domestic violence are men (85%).

The typical profile of the victim of sexual violence is a woman, aged between 15 and 19 years old. For physical or psychological violence, it is also a woman, but rather aged between 35 and 39 years old.

The geographical distribution is identical in 2025 to what was observed in 2024. “Pas-de-Calais, Réunion, Nord, Somme and Seine-Saint-Denis are among the departments which display the highest rate of victims recorded per 1,000 inhabitants aged 15 to 64,” details the Service.

Of the 284,681 victims of domestic violence in 2025, 124 were killed, 433 were the subject of an attempted murder, 225 were drugged, 35 were mutilated and 25 were tortured. The worst part is that according to the Victimization Survey Experienced and Felt in Security (VRS 2025), “only 13% of victims of domestic violence file a complaint with the security services for the acts they suffered”. In fact, there are more than two million victims of domestic violence each year in France.