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Learning from Survivors of Rape and Sexual Violence
Rape Crisis Statistics 2025
‘Learning from Survivors of Rape and Sexual Violence – Rape Crisis Statistics 2025’ draws on data from our seven member Rape Crisis Centres across Ireland, collected securely and confidentially through Mosaic, our award-winning data collection system. It transforms the experiences of thousands of survivors into a powerful evidence base, giving them a voice in public debate and policy, whether or not they have ever spoken out publicly.
Rape Crisis Statistics 2025
Headline Statistics 2025
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Headline Statistics 2025
- 15,134 Helpline contacts – up 15.4% from 2024
- 15,807 Appointments scheduled for counselling and support – up 6.9% from 2024
- 1,423 People engaged in counselling and support – up 7.0% from 2024
- 96.3% of perpetrators were men or boys
- 81.8% of perpetrators were known to the survivor
- 59.8% of survivors first experienced sexual violence in childhood, yet most did not access counselling until adulthood
- 54.5% more men and boys accessed counselling in 2025 compared to 2018
- 40.5% of incidents were reported to Gardaí or other formal authority (34.3% when the survivor is male)
- 40.4% more clients were seen in 2025 than in 2018
- 23.7% of survivors waited more than 10 years before disclosing
- 18.8% of survivors experienced multiple incidents of sexual violence in their lifetime
- 11.3% of survivors had not disclosed to a trusted person before accessing services
Survivors facing compounded barriers to safety, reporting or service access in 2025
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Survivors facing compounded barriers to safety, reporting or service access in 2025
- 32.3% of survivors had 1 or more characteristics associated with compounded barriers
- 14.7% of survivors had 2 or more characteristics associated with compounded barriers
- 9.7% of survivors identified as having a disability – 48% reported living with a chronic illness, 25% physical or mobility disability,
- 20% learning or intellectual disability, and 7% hearing or visual impairment
- 7.1% of survivors identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or another minoritised sexual orientation
- 26.7% of survivors whose abuse first occurred between the ages of 45 and 64 identified as having a disability
- 35.7% of incidents experienced by survivors facing compounded barriers were reported to a formal authority
- 11.9% of LGB survivors experienced abuse spanning both childhood and adulthood – compared to 9.6% overall (suggesting sustained exposure to risk over time)
- 19.2% faced compounded barriers related to their legal status in Ireland (with 8.4% living in an IPAS centre – nearly three times the number in 2022)
- 14.0% faced compounded barriers related to ethnicity – 10.5% of survivors identifying as Black or Black Irish, 2.8% other ethnic backgrounds, and 0.7% Irish Traveller or Roma
- 37.4% of survivors aged 25–44 at the time of abuse were not Irish citizens (nearly double the rate across all survivors: 19.2%)
- 14.0% of survivors facing 2 or more compounded barriers reported to Gardaí (less than half the rate of the overall survivor population: 32.8%)
- 89.2% of survivors facing compounded barriers related to ethnicity had at least one additional compounded barrier
