In Viet Nam, both out-of-pocket expenditures and lost earnings represent nearly 1.41 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).Costs are borne by everyone, including individual victims/survivors, perpetrators, the government, and society in general.

For example, the costs of the salaries of individuals working at shelters are direct tangible costs. Costs are both direct and indirect, and tangible and intangible.

Violence against women can result in significant costs to the state, victims/survivors, and communities.Sixteen per cent of young women aged 15 to 24 experienced this violence in the past 12 months. Of those who have been in a relationship, almost one in four adolescent girls aged 15–19 (24 per cent) has experienced physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner or husband.More than 640 million or 26 per cent of women aged 15 and older have been subjected to intimate partner violence. Most violence against women is perpetrated by current or former husbands or intimate partners.The rates of depression, anxiety disorders, unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, and HIV are higher in women who have experienced violence compared to women who have not, as well as many other health problems that can last after the violence has ended. This figure does not include sexual harassment.

Globally, an estimated 736 million women-almost one in three-have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or both at least once in their life (30 per cent of women aged 15 and older).

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