In several parts of the world, it is very rarely reported.

The World's Shame: The Global Rape Epidemic Around the world, rape and sexual abuse are everyday violent occurrences -- affecting close to a billion women and girls over their lifetimes.

While people mostly hear about rape and sexual assault against women, men around the world also experience sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape every day. Women ages 16-19 are four times more likely to be victims of rape or sexual assault and female college students ages 18-24 are three times more likely to experience sexual assault. Rape is defined in most jurisdictions as sexual intercourse, or other forms of sexual penetration, committed by a perpetrator against a victim without their consent. Rape is a particularly complex crime to analyse.
It has varied historically and culturally. Inconsistent definitions of rape, different rates of reporting, recording, prosecution and conviction for rape create controversial statistical disparities, and lead to accusations that many rape statistics are unreliable or misleading. However, despite the pervasiveness of these crimes, laws are insufficient, inconsistent, not systematically enforced and, sometimes, promote violence.

Statistics on rape and other sexual assaults are commonly available in industrialized countries, and are becoming more common throughout the world.

The mass gang rape of German Fraus and Fraulein when the country lost the war remains one of the most under-reported piece of history. The definition of rape is inconsistent between governmental health organizations, law enforcement, health providers, and legal professions. Tracy Chapman New Beginning ℗ 1995 Elektra Entertainment for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.