Table 1
Victims of intimate partner violence, by most serious weapon present, Canada, 2010 to 2024

Table 1
Victims of intimate partner violence, by most serious weapon present, Canada, 2010 to 2024 Table summary
The information is grouped by Year (appearing as row headers), Most serious weapon present and Total victims of intimate partner violence4, calculated using Firearm1, Other weapon2, No weapon3, Unknown, number of victims, rate, percent5, number of victims, number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Year Most serious weapon present Total victims of intimate partner violence Table 1 Note 4
Firearm Table 1 Note 1 Other weapon Table 1 Note 2 No weapon Table 1 Note 3 Unknown
number of victims rate percent Table 1 Note 5 number of victims number rate
Note 1

Includes handguns, rifles, shotguns, fully automatic firearms, sawed-off shotguns, firearm-like weapons (e.g., starter pistols, flare guns, air guns, ghost guns, BB guns) and unknown types of firearms. Also includes violent crime where the most serious violation was a firearm-specific violent offence (discharging a firearm with intent, use of a firearm in the commission of an offence, pointing a firearm) and the type of weapon was unknown.

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Note 2

Includes knives and other piercing or cutting instruments, clubs and other blunt instruments, explosives, fire, motor vehicles, ropes and other strangulation instruments, burning liquids and other caustic agents, and other weapons.

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Note 3

Includes physical force and threats.

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Note 4

Includes incidents where the victim and the accused person were current or former legally married spouses, common-law partners, boyfriends, girlfriends, and dating partners, as well as any other type of intimate partner relationship (e.g., one-night stands). Includes all non-firearm-related incidents in Quebec. In Quebec, the information management system used by the majority of police services produces a relatively high proportion of unknown values for the variable “most serious weapon present” when the incident does not involve a firearm. For that reason, the sum of categories displayed will not add up to the total. Data from the Québec City Police Service are also excluded regardless of the most serious weapon present.

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Note 5

Represents the number of victims of intimate partner violence where a firearm was present divided by the total number of victims of intimate partner violence.

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Note: Counts are based on victims between the ages of 12 and 110. Victims whose age was reported as older than 110 years are excluded due to possible miscoding of unknown ages within this category. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend database).
2010 to 2014 2,902 2.0 0.6 45,665 318,955 8,021 469,012 319
2010 567 2.0 0.6 9,107 71,246 1,981 101,444 352
2011 595 2.0 0.6 9,738 66,001 1,700 96,853 333
2012 600 2.0 0.6 9,328 63,336 1,406 93,987 319
2013 546 1.8 0.6 8,820 60,209 1,450 89,366 300
2014 594 2.0 0.7 8,672 58,163 1,484 87,362 291
2015 to 2019 3,707 2.4 0.8 51,285 314,391 8,855 479,648 309
2015 624 2.1 0.7 9,189 59,750 1,510 89,970 297
2016 699 2.3 0.8 9,663 60,480 1,418 91,573 299
2017 748 2.4 0.8 10,237 61,126 1,574 94,182 304
2018 768 2.4 0.8 10,736 63,707 1,706 97,915 311
2019 868 2.7 0.8 11,460 69,328 2,647 106,008 332
2020 to 2024 5,246 3.1 0.9 66,520 367,747 17,848 584,771 348
2020 981 3.0 0.9 12,620 70,580 3,057 109,160 338
2021 1,041 3.2 0.9 12,732 71,134 3,473 112,667 346
2022 1,027 3.1 0.9 13,238 72,471 3,467 115,408 347
2023 1,101 3.2 0.9 13,851 75,798 3,870 121,702 355
2024 1,096 3.1 0.9 14,079 77,764 3,981 125,834 355
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