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Table 2 Percentage of adolescents and young women 15–24 years who experienced intimate partner violence, national DHS surveys, 2010–2018 (in parenthesis 95% confidence interval)

From: Intimate partner violence against adolescents and young women in sub-Saharan Africa: who is most vulnerable?

Country

Physical and or sexual IPV

Physical IPV

Sexual IPV

N

Gabon

43.4 [36.7,50.3]

38.8 [32.3,45.6]

16.1 [11.6,21.9]

573

Congo DRC

40.9 [36.8,45.1]

32.6 [29.1,36.4]

23.9 [20.0,28.3]

1136

Cameroon

39.8 [36.1,43.5]

33.4 [29.7,37.4]

16.3 [13.6,19.5]

943

Sierra Leone

36.7 [32.2,41.4]

32.9 [28.7,37.4]

8.6 [6.3,11.7]

681

Burundi

36.4 [33.4,39.6]

23.6 [20.9,26.5]

23.2 [20.6,26.1]

1010

Uganda

32.5 [29.6,35.6]

23.9 [21.5,26.4]

18.3 [16.1,20.7]

1675

Tanzania

32.4 [29.2,35.7]

28.9 [25.9,32.0]

11.6 [9.7,13.8]

1491

Zambia

31.8 [29.0,34.8]

26.2 [23.5,29.0]

14.9 [13.0,17.0]

1694

Angola

30.6 [27.2,34.2]

28.5 [25.3,31.9]

9.8 [8.1,11.8]

2086

Namibia

29.1 [20.9,38.9]

26.7 [19.2,36.0]

10.1 [5.5,17.9]

125

Zimbabwe

28.4 [25.2,31.9]

21.5 [18.7,24.6]

12.9 [10.7,15.5]

1081

Malawi

26.1 [23.3,29.1]

15.8 [13.6,18.4]

16.9 [14.5,19.6]

1265

Côte d'Ivoire

25.3 [22.2,28.8]

24.4 [21.3,27.7]

5.9 [4.2,8.1]

960

Kenya

25.2 [21.1,29.8]

21.1 [17.2,25.6]

9.1 [6.5,12.6]

676

Mali

24.7 [20.6,29.2]

20.3 [17.0,24.1]

12.9 [10.3,16.1]

847

Rwanda

23.9 [18.9,29.8]

19.1 [14.7,24.4]

8.4 [5.5,12.8]

219

Ethiopia

21.7 [17.8,26.1]

18.7 [14.9,23.1]

8.4 [5.8,12.0]

814

Chad

18.2 [14.9,22.2]

14.2 [11.5,17.3]

8.7 [6.4,11.9]

948

Nigeria

17.0 [14.8,19.4]

12.8 [10.9,14.9]

8.4 [6.7,10.4]

1530

South Africa

15.8 [9.8,24.5]

12.2 [7.2,19.8]

8.0 [3.6,16.8]

185

Togo

15.1 [12.5,18.0]

11.9 [9.6,14.5]

7.1 [5.3,9.4]

785

Benin

14.2 [11.5,17.3]

9.1 [7.0,11.7]

7.7 [5.7,10.3]

832

Senegal

14.1 [10.3,19.0]

10.4 [6.9,15.2]

8.2 [5.4,12.2]

504

Mozambique

12.4 [9.6,16.0]

11.8 [9.0,15.3]

2.1 [1.2,3.5]

661

Burkina Faso

8.4 [7.1,9.9]

7.8 [6.6,9.1]

1.5 [1.0,2.2]

2475

Gambia

7.1 [5.2,9.6]

5.3 [3.7,7.4]

2.2 [1.2,4.0]

869

Comoros

6.5 [4.4,9.6]

5.2 [3.5,7.7]

2.0 [1.0,4.1]

479