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What is the percentage of child victims of human trafficking

Author

Andrew Mccoy

Updated on April 21, 2026

Child trafficking affects every country in the world, including the United States. Children make up 27% of all human trafficking victims worldwide, and two out of every three identified child victims are girls[i].

What percentage of trafficked humans are children?

Of the 600,000-800,000 people trafficked across international borders each year, 70 percent are female and 50 percent are children. The majority of these victims are forced into the commercial sex trade.

What do human traffickers do with babies?

What does the human trafficking of children look like in the United States? Across the globe, traffickers buy and sell children, exploiting them for sex and forced labor, and moving them across international borders.

How many people are victims of child trafficking?

National Human Trafficking Hotline statistics show a 25 percent jump in human trafficking cases from 2017 to 2018. This includes sex and labor trafficking. Of the more than 23,500 runaways reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2018, 1 in 7 were likely victims of child sex trafficking.