On the occasion of Mother's Day, the Paraguayan Public Ministry's Observatory released a report revealing that 80% of domestic violence victims are women, based on an analysis by the institution's Statistics Department. The study, reported by ABC Color, examined a sample of 80 cases from 2024 and 80 from 2025.
In 2024, there were 5,143 domestic violence complaints filed in Asunción, and 4,649 in 2025, totaling 9,792 complaints across both years, plus additional cases processed in other fiscal units nationwide. The report found that 90% of complaints involved at least one victim, and 10% involved two or more.
Victims are predominantly aged 30–44 (37%) and 18–29 (31%), and are often students, workers, and mothers. Half of the reported attacks combine physical and psychological-verbal violence, while 26% are exclusively psychological-verbal, including insults, threats, and harassment. Physical assaults account for 21% of cases, involving punches, knife wounds, and injuries from objects or nails and teeth.
Eighty-eight percent of incidents occurred inside homes, and 70% of aggressors and victims lived together. Other locations include public roads (7%), vehicles, workplaces, and via phone calls. The main aggressors are romantic partners (spouses or cohabitants), followed by ex-partners, ex-spouses, and ex-cohabitants, then children, siblings, and mothers.
Aggressors are most often aged 30–44 (45%) and 18–29 (34%). Complaints peak during mornings, afternoons, and siestas (5,407 cases), with 4,745 at night. Weekends see higher numbers: Saturdays (1,653) and Sundays (1,873), with Mondays also high (1,380). In 2024, the busiest months were March, September, November, and December; in 2025, January, February, March, and December. The departments with the highest incidence are Asunción, Caaguazú, Itapúa, Alto Paraná, and Central.