The of women immigration detention Figurenumber One: Number of womenin and men in detention (during month of January 2015 — 2024)1 Figure One: Number of women and men in detention (during month of January 2015 — 2024)32 2000 1805 NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN DETENTION 1800 1513 1600 1400 1251 1363 1211 1200 1435 1489 1175 1017 1000 824 800 600 400 282 206 200 0 2015 2016 97 75 89 67 50 65 44 48 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Number of women in detention (month of January 2015 – 2024 Number of men in detention (month of January 2015 – 2024) Women make up a comparatively small percentage of the total global immigration detention population and the situation in Australia is no exception. 2000 NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN DETENTION As demonstrated 1805 in Figure One, women have represented a small proportion of the total number of people detained in immigration detention in Australia over the 2015 – 2024 period. Whilst there is some fluctuation 1800 to their total numbers, from 2017 women have comprised less than 10% of the total immigration detention 1513 1600 1489 population in Australia (see Table One). 1435 1400 1251 1363 1211 1175 Table One: Number of women in immigration detention and their percentage of the total detention 1200 33 1017 population (during month of January 2017 — 2024) 1000 824 Year 800 Number of Women in Detention Percentage of the total detention population 2017 600 97 7.2% 400 2018 200 2019 0 282 75 206 89 2016 5.8% 97 75 2017 2018 89 67 50 65 44 48 2019 4.7% 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 7% 2020 2015 67 2021 50 2022 65 4.2% 2023 44 4.1% 2024 48 5.5% Number of women in detention (month of January 2015 – 2024 3.4% Number of men in detention (month of January 2015 – 2024) 2 As of 30 June 2024, there were 50 women in held immigration detention facilities across the onshore detention network (including Alternative Places of Detention (APODs)).34 Women made up 5.73% of the total detained population and the largest proportion of women were detained at VIDC (27 women), PIDC (6 women) and BRP (6 women).35 12 Not just an afterthoughtThe experience of women in immigration detention