Madrid/Toledo (EFE) and in the case of Castilla-La Mancha, 55 women have been murdered since 2003.
According to data from the latest statistical bulletin from the Ministry of Equality, which offers data up to December 2022, 41 women have been murdered in the Balearic Islands and 78 in the Canary Islands, which places the average rate of femicides per million women over 15 years of age in that period at 4.5 and 4.3, respectively.
The Valencian Community (3.4), Andalusia (3.4) and Castilla-La Mancha (3.2) appear next.
The autonomies with the lowest rate of sexist crimes since 2003 are Extremadura (1.2), the Basque Country (2) and Cantabria and Madrid (2.1 in both cases).
Andalusia, the autonomous community with the most deaths from sexist violence
In absolute figures, Andalusia is the region in which there have been the most femicides in the last 20 years (239), ahead of Catalonia (186), the Valencian Community (148) and Madrid (124).
In this way, since 2003 a total of 1,191 women have been murdered by gender violence in Spain and nine of them so far this year, according to the latest available data.
In Castilla-La Mancha, 55 women have been killed by sexist violence since 2003, so that the average rate per million women aged 15 and over stands at 3.2.
In Toledo and Ciudad Real, 15 women have been murdered in each province; in Guadalajara, nine, and in Cuenca and Albacete, eight.