Human Rights Statistics

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Now and again throughout this blog, we post statistical data on trends and distributions of human rights violations. Since not everyone is interested in personal comments and reflections, we decided to bring together the different statistics which are scattered all over this blog. The following pages contain just the statistics and nothing else, and they are grouped by topic. (At first sight, not all topics may seem to be relevant from a human rights point of view, but they are. Read the rest of the blog for a clearer picture of the reasons why).

The original data sources for these statistics can be found here. I also want to mention Hans Rosling’s Gapminder, a great tool to visualize data.

Before delving into the data, perhaps it’s useful if you first take a step back in order to think, not about the data, but about human rights measurement. For this purpose, you may want to read this theoretical article about human rights and statistics, and about some of the problems resulting from the attempts to measure human rights; and also these cautionary tales about the value of statistics in general. And then there’s a selection of theoretical posts here dealing with the topic of human rights measurement.

A
Statistics on abortion
Statistics on arms trade
Statistics on asylum
C
Statistics on capital punishment
Statistics on child and infant mortality
Statistics on child labor
Statistics on child marriage
Statistics on child soldiers
Statistics on corruption
D
Statistics on democracy (the measurement of democracy is part of the measurement of human rights, since democracy is a human right, but it is a well-developed field in itself as you can verify here)
Statistics on discrimination
Statistics on discrimination of homosexuals
Statistics on discrimination of minorities
Statistics on discrimination of women
E
Statistics on education
Statistics on education levels and achievements
F
Statistics on female genital mutilation
Statistics on forced labor
Statistics on freedom
Statistics on freedom and happiness
Statistics on freedom of movement
Statistics on freedom of the press
G
Statistics on good governance
Statistics on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) correlations
H
Statistics on hate crime
Statistics on health
Statistics on HIV/AIDS
Statistics on homelessness
Statistics on hunger
I
Statistics on income inequality
Statistics on international development aid
Statistics on international intervention
L
Statistics on labor conditions
Statistics on life expectancy
Statistics on literacy levels
M
Statistics on maternal mortality
Statistics on migration
Statistics on military spending
Statistics on modern slavery
P
Statistics on poverty
Statistics on poverty, urbanization and slums
Statistics on poverty and absolute income levels
Statistics on poverty and discrimination
Statistics on poverty and economic growth
Statistics on poverty and education
Statistics on poverty and health
Statistics on poverty and immigration
Statistics on poverty and unhappiness
Statistics on poverty in the US
Statistics on prisoner population rates
Statistics on privacy protection
R
Statistics on racism
Statistics on refugees
Statistics on religion
Statistics on religion and politics
Statistics on religious liberty
Statistics on remittances
S
Statistics on support for democracy
Statistics on support for human rights
Statistics on support for human rights and democracy
T
Statistics on terrorism
Statistics on torture
V
Statistics on violence
Statistics on violent conflict
W
Statistics on war and conflict
X
Statistics on xenophobia
Statistics on xenophobia, migration and asylum