Throughout 2024, the Guardian aimed to report on every woman allegedly killed by a man, drawing on the work of campaigns such as Counting Dead Women, the Femicide Census and Killed Women.
In recent years in the UK, a woman has been killed by a man every three days on average, yet most of their stories have gone unheard. The Guardian wants to help change that.
This year, the toll of women whose deaths have led to a man being charged has reached 80. Here, we mark each of their lives.
None of these incidents are linked in any way other than that a woman has been killed and a man charged in connection with her death.
I’m sad to say that apparently Australia has the unevitable situation where 100 women were killed by men in 2024.
The population of the UK is 68 million, Australia is 27 million.
Just think about that for a moment.
Canada had 172 women murdered by men in 2024. Population is 41.6 million.
1 in 270,000? Ignoring what those odds are actually for, I’d like those numbers. Less than getting struck by lightning, more than a shark attack. More than good enough odds for just about any bet. Not exactly the intention behind thinking about it for a moment, but it was one of those intrusive thoughts…
If only it was as noteworthy for rarity as struck by lightning, instead of the statistic it is.
Not all Australian humans are female…
and not all Australian killers are male
the data for this year isn’t out yet but apparently the stat for last year was 409 people murdered in Australia, so i guess ~102 is what you’d expect if every gender killed equally