Domestic violence kills more than war

Domestic violence, mainly against women and children, kills far more people than wars and is an often overlooked scourge that costs the world economy more than $8trn (€6.2trn) a year, experts said.

The study, which its authors said was a first attempt to estimate global costs of violence, urged the United Nations to pay more attention to abuse at home — something that gets less attention than armed conflicts from Syria to Ukraine.

“For every civil war battlefield death, roughly nine people ... are killed in inter-personal disputes,” Anke Hoeffler of Oxford University and James Fearon of Stanford University wrote in the report.