• Among high school youth nationwide:
  • About 9% of students reported that they had been forced to have sexual intercourse.
  • Female students are more likely than male students to report sexual assault (11.9% vs. 6.1%).
  • Overall, 12.3% of Black students, 10.4% of Hispanic students, and 7.3% of White students reported that they had been forced to have sexual intercourse (CDC 2004).
• Among college students nationwide, between 20% and 25% of women reported experiencing completed or attempted rape (Fisher, Cullen, and Turner 2000).
• Among adults nationwide:
  • More than 300,000 women (0.3%) and over 90,000 men (0.1%) reported being raped in the previous 12 months.
  • One in six women (17%) and one in thirty-three men (3%) reported experiencing an attempted or completed rape at some time in their lives.
  • Rape usually occurs more than once. Among adults who report being raped, women experienced 2.9 rapes and men experienced 1.2 rapes in the previous year (Tjaden and Thoennes 2000).

Reference: Center for Disease Control - http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/svfacts.htm

• Every two and a half minutes, somewhere in America, someone is sexually assaulted.
• One in six American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape, and 10% of sexual assault victims are men.
• In 2003-2004, there were an average annual 204,370 victims of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault.
• About 44% of rape victims are under age 18, and 80% are under age 30 and about 15% are under age 12.
• About 2/3 of sexual assaults are committed by someone who is known to the victim.

Reference: RAINN (Rape Abuse Incest National Network) http://www.rainn.org/statistics/index.html