Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: wife-beating-attitudes-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	125	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	125	0
Survey yearreference_yearReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	18	0
Women aged 15-49 who say a husband is justified in hitting or beating his wife (%)wife_beating_justifiedHeadline	The headline figure: Women aged 15-49 who say a husband is justified in hitting or beating his wife (%).	Number · up to 1 decimal	1.2Georgia80.2Afghanistanmiddle 22.4	112	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

One edition, covering 125 countries.

Not in this dataset · 100 places this site covers

UNICEF gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaAustraliaAustriaBahamasBahrainBelgiumBermudaBoliviaBotswanaBrazilBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiBulgariaCanadaCayman IslandsChannel IslandsChileChinaCook IslandsCroatiaCuraçaoCyprusCzechiaDenmarkDominicaEcuadorEstoniaFaroe IslandsFinlandFranceFrench PolynesiaGermanyGibraltarGreeceGreenlandGrenadaGuamHong KongHungaryIcelandIranIrelandIsle of ManIsraelItalyJapanKuwaitLatviaLibyaLiechtensteinLithuaniaLuxembourgMacauMalaysiaMaltaMauritiusMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNetherlandsNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwayPalauPolandPortugalPuerto RicoRomaniaRussiaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSaudi ArabiaSeychellesSingaporeSint MaartenSlovakiaSloveniaSomalilandSouth KoreaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandSyriaTaiwanUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican CityVenezuela

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNICEF

   data.unicef.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife (surveys to 2025)

   .PT_F_15-49_W-BTNG

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: wife-beating-attitudes-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/wife-beating-attitudes

From UNICEF's child protection databases, which combine the Demographic and Health Surveys with UNICEF's own Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, read from UNICEF's own data warehouse.

• Charted

  Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Gender & Equality

• Near neighbours

  • Women, Business and the LawWorld Bank Group · 55 held · 1971–2026
  • Women's Political Empowerment IndexV-Dem Institute · 36 held · 1990–2025
  • Social Institutions and Gender IndexOECD · 1 held · 2023