Media 4 Humanity

Fighting Child Trafficking in the United States

The Numbers Makeonenumbercountad

  • As many as 1.2 million children may be trafficked worldwide annually.2
  • 25% of all sex tourists abusing children around the world are American.1
  • 80% of US victims are female and 50% of these females are children.3
  • 45,000 to 50,000 women and children are trafficked into the US each year.1
  • Approximately 15,000 individuals trafficked into the US each year are children.1
  • Half of these children experience commercial sexual exploitation.1
  • Every year, 10,000 unaccompanied minors enter the US. One-third of them fall prey to sexual exploitation. 1
  • There are as many as 400,000 prostituted children currently in the US. 1
  • 293,000 American youth are currently at-risk of commercial sexual exploitation. 4
  • Trafficking is a $7 billion global industry. 1
  • A single trafficked child can earn a trafficker $30,000 or more.1
  • 55% of the children trafficked in the U.S. are black.5
  • Over 3500 women and girls are currently working as sex slaves and indentured servants in the metropolitan area.1
  • Most victims in the metropolitan area are from the former Soviet Union, Asia, Central and South America, and Africa.1

Sources

  1. End Child Prostitution and Trafficking (ECPAT)
  2. International Organization for Adolescents (IOFA)
  3. The Protection Project, "United States Country Report"
  4. U.S. Department of Justice
  5. Black America Web