Human Trafficking Facts

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• Sexual exploitation is the main purpose for trafficking, accounting for almost 60 percent, while forced labor accounts for approximately 34 percent of all identified cases.

 

• The U.S. Department of Defense has characterized human trafficking as the world’s fastest growing crime.

 

• The International Labor Organization estimates that there are 4.8 million people trapped in forced sexual exploitation globally.

 

• 50% of those victims are estimated to be children

 

• 70% of the victims of human trafficking are women and girls.

 

• According to a 2019 report from the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) the majority of trafficked victims are trafficked within their own countries of citizenship.

 

• From 2007 to 2017, the National Human Trafficking Hotline, operated by Polaris, has received reports of 34,700 sex trafficking cases inside the United States.

 

• The average age a victim enters trafficking is 11 to 14 years old

 

• According to the 2018 Thomson Reuters Report, India is the most dangerous country in the world for women and girls based on the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labor. The other nine countries are:

2. Afghanistan
3. Syria
4. Somalia
5. Saudi Arabia
6. Pakistan
7. Democratic Republic of Congo
8. Yemen
9. Nigeria
10. United States
 

• Sex Trafficking is a $99 billion per year industry.

 
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