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Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife, 2025 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2025; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife, 2025 compilation covers 125 countries. Afghanistan is highest, at 80.2; Georgia is lowest, at 1.2. The middle country reads 24.2. 18 readings are more than ten years older than the file and are listed but not compared.

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Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife · Latest available · compiled 2025

HighestAfghanistan

80.2

LowestGeorgia

1.2

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife, 2025 compilation, as published. UNICEF ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 125 countries · select a heading to sort

Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife, 2025 compilation: every country, as published by UNICEF.
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia · 2015 reading201580.2
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa · 2010 reading, too old to compare201078.5
3ChadTCDMiddle Africa · 2019 reading201977.2
4Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia · 2015 reading201576.7
5Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia · 2016 reading201674.0
6KiribatiKIRMicronesia · 2019 reading201970.2
7Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia · 2018 reading201869.8
8MaliMLIWestern Africa · 2024 reading202469.3
9GuineaGINWestern Africa · 2018 reading201867.2
10Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2019 reading201964.7
11MoroccoMARNorthern Africa · 2004 reading, too old to compare200463.9
12EthiopiaETHEastern Africa · 2016 reading201663.0
13BurundiBDIEastern Africa · 2017 reading201761.8
=14Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia · 2007 reading, too old to compare200755.9
=14VanuatuVUTMelanesia · 2023 reading202355.9
16DR CongoCODMiddle Africa · 2024 reading202454.9
17Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa · 2015 reading201554.2
18Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa · 2011 reading, too old to compare201152.6
=19EritreaERIEastern Africa · 2010 reading, too old to compare201051.4
=19GambiaGMBWestern Africa · 2020 reading202051.4
21MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia · 2016 reading201651.2
22RwandaRWAEastern Africa · 2020 reading202049.6
23UgandaUGAEastern Africa · 2016 reading201649.0
24YemenYEMWestern Asia · 2013 reading, too old to compare201348.7
25Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa · 2019 reading201948.6

02In Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife, 2025 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline. Readings too old to compare take no part.

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan80.2
  2. 3Chad77.2
  3. 4Solomon Islands76.7
  4. 5Timor-Leste74.0
  5. 6Kiribati70.2

Lowest

  1. 125Georgia1.2
  2. 124Peru1.3
  3. 122Serbia1.6
  4. 121Cuba1.7
  5. 120Dominican Republic2.2

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 24.2. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2025, from 2004 to 2025. 18 are more than ten years older than the file: listed and marked, but left out of the ends and the changes.

  • 112 distinct values among 125

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 1 decimal. 3 countries share 3.5. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    UNICEF publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 125 countries has every column.

04The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

UNICEF (2025). Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife, 2025 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/wife-beating-attitudes/2025

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06Questions

Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife, 2025 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest acceptance of wife-beating in Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife, 2025 compilation?

Afghanistan, at 80.2, of the 125 countries in the file.

How many countries does Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife, 2025 compilation cover?

125.

Where can I download Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife, 2025 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Women Who Think a Husband Is Justified in Hitting or Beating His Wife, 2025 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-10-03, when it was read from the publisher.

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