Twenty-five people died last year from domestic violence, making 2025 the year with the most homicides in this context since 2022.
According to figures from the Domestic Violence Portal, under the responsibility of the Commission for Equality and Citizenship (CIG), released on Monday, March 2, eleven people – ten women and one child – died in the last half of the year, adding to the eleven women, two men and one child who had lost their lives in the first half.
In 2024, 22 people had died as victims of voluntary homicide in the context of domestic violence, the same number recorded in 2023.
The year 2025 is therefore the year with the most voluntary homicides in the context of domestic violence since 2022, the year in which 28 deaths were recorded.
Throughout 2025, the PSP and GNR recorded 29,778 incidents related to domestic violenceslightly below the previous year (29,885).
At the end of 2025 there were 1,560 inmates in prisons for domestic violence, of which 1,184 were in actual prison and 376 were in pre-trial detention.above the numbers recorded at the end of the previous year (1,358 inmates, of which 1,019 were in actual prison and 339 were in pre-trial detention).
There were still, at the end of last year, 1,351 suspects with coercive measures in force in the context of the crime of domestic violence, more than the 1,236 in the previous year.
The number of people integrated into programs for perpetrators also increased from 2,788 at the end of 2024 to 3,112 at the end of 2025.
Regarding support measures for victims of domestic violence, there were 6,100 people with teleassistance measures at the end of 2025, 424 fewer than at the end of the previous year.
The National Support Network for Victims of Domestic Violence hosted 1,349 people at the end of the year, including 705 women, 623 children and 21 men.
At the end of the previous year there were 1,420 people in total, including 727 women, 669 children and 24 men.
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