Facts About Human Trafficking

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1. As reported over the past five years, human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Moldova, and traffickers exploit victims from Moldova abroad. Traffickers exploit Moldovan victims in sex trafficking and labor trafficking within Moldova and in other parts of Europe and the Middle East. Traffickers operating in Romania and Moldova exploit Moldovan women and girls through Romania with fraudulent passports in trafficking operations across Europe. Most victims are from rural areas and have low levels of education. Children represent a third of all victims identified. [1]

2. Worldwide, the number of child victims under the age of 18 is estimated at 5.5 million. [2]

3. It’s estimated that internationally there are between 20 million and 40 million people in modern slavery today. The full impact of human trafficking is impossible to know because of the vast numbers of cases it is believed go undetected. [3]

4. It has been suggested that only about .04% survivors of human trafficking cases around the world are identified, with most cases of human trafficking never reported. [4]

5. The global profits from human trafficking are estimated at $150 billion a year, $99 billion of which comes from commercial sexual exploitation. [5]

6. An estimated 71% of enslaved people around the world are women and girls; men and boys make up the remaining 29%. [6]

7. "51.6% of the criminal human trafficking cases active in the US in 2018 were sex trafficking cases involving child victims only" [7]

8. The average age a teen enters the sex trade in the US is 12 to 14 years old. Many victims are runaway girls who were sexually abused as children. [8]