Sexual Abuse Statistics research - Rape crisis England

20% of women and 4% of men have experienced some type of sexual assault since the age of 16, equivalent to 3.4 million female and 631,000 male victims

In 2017 - 3.1% of women (510,000) and 0.8% of men (138,000) aged 16 to 59 had experienced a sexual assault in the last year. 

Approximately 85,000 women and 12,000 men (aged 16 - 59) experience rape, attempted rape or sexual assault by penetration in England and Wales alone every year; that's roughly 11 of the most serious sexual offences (of adults alone) every hour. 

Only around 15% of those who experience sexual violence report to the police - This is one that really stuck out to me and I felt like would be important to include in the edit as it just shows how many people don't speak out about it. Which is what we want to encourage people to do as they won't be judged and they aren't alone. 

Conviction rates for rape are far lower than other crimes, with only 5.7% of reported rape cases ending in a conviction for the perpetrator. (Kelly, Lovett and Regan, A gap or a chasm? Attrition in reported rape cases, 2005)