in 13 countries of Eastern and Southern Africa and Southeast Asia were subjected to child sexual exploitation and abuse online in the past year alone, depending on the country
belonging to an ethnic or racial minority experienced at least one sexual harm during childhood, compared with 68% who did not belong to a minority
Source: Economist Impact, 2023
100 million children
pushed into multi-dimensional poverty by COVID-19
Source: United National General Assembly, 2023
54% of US teens respondents
reported having first seen online pornography when they were aged 13 or younger
Source: Common Sense, 2022
58% of US teens respondents
aged 13 or younger indicated that they had encountered pornography accidentally
Source: Common Sense, 2022
22% to 48% of children
reported accidental exposure to sexual content depending on the country
Source: Disrupting Harm, 2022
99.5% of reports
in 2022 were of incidents of suspected child sexual abuse material
Source: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 2023
46% of surveyed victims-survivors
of financial sexual extortion were children
Source: Wolak,J.et al. 2017
Online grooming crimes have risen by 80%
in the past four years
Source: the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 2022
54% of respondents
who received sexually explicit material received at least some through a private video sharing service, and 46% through a private messaging service
Source: WeProtect Global Alliance and Economist Impact, 2021
Increased from 27% to 78%
the number of webpages featuring ‘self-generated’ sexual imagery from 2018 to 2022
Source: Internet Watch Foundation, 2022
Children aged 11-13
feature most in reports of ‘self-generated’ imagery, with girls in this age group representing 50% of all reports actioned in 2022
Source: Internet Watch Foundation, 2022
20,000 webpages
including coerced ‘self-generated’ sexual abuse imagery of 7-10 year olds identified in the first half of 2022
Source: Internet Watch Foundation, 2022
129% increase
in reports related to imagery which had been created of children aged 7-10 who were tricked/ groomed into performing sexual acts on camera by an online predator since 2021
Source: Internet Watch Foundation, 2023
500,000 Filipino children
were victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation and abuse online in 2022. This translates to roughly one in 100 Filipino children
Source: Scale of Harm, 2023
90% of URLs
displaying child sexual abuse material were on openly accessible, free-to-use image hosting services in 2022
Source: Internet Watch Foundation, 2022
64.5%
of most common reported risk to children across social media platforms was ‘content of interest to predators’
Source: Crisp, 2023
302,392 respondents
opened the global dark web survey targeted at individuals who had searched for child sexual abuse material from 2021 to 2023
Source: Suojellan Lapsia, 2023
70% of senior IT professionals
from Belgium, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the UK stated that increased working from home has heightened the risk of the spread of child sexual abuse material
Source: NetClean, 2023
94% of members
from six different dark web forums, with more than 600,000 active members and 760,000 posts, downloaded child sexual abuse content
Source: Mare, 2023
38% of respondents
from dark web survey actively sought online contact with a child after viewing child sexual abuse material
Source: Suojellaan Lapsia, 2023
Only 7.5%
of child sexual abuse material on the dark web network is sold for profit
Source: Liggett,R. 2018
In 2022, 89% of actioned reports
of child sexual exploitation and abuse online were non- commercial
Source: Internet Watch Foundation, 2022
Female perpetrators were indicated 20%
of the time in abuse cases
Source: WeProtect Global Alliance and ECPAT International, 2022
25% of respondents
in dark web study targeting individuals searching for child sexual abuse material reported using images and videos related to violent, sadistic, and brutal material
Source: Suojellaan Lapsia, 2023
Increase by 425%
venture capital investment in generative artificial intelligence (AI), from 2020 to 2022
the proportion of child sexual abuse material hosted in the Netherlands went from after a series of interventions led by the Dutch government
Source: Internet Watch Foundation, 2020
Increased from 5% to 15%
the proportion of child sexual abuse material hosted in the US in 2022
Source: Internet Watch Foundation, 2022
Over 350 safety tech providers
were operating globally in 2022
Source: Publitas 2022
79% of 18-year old respondents
had received sexually explicit content on their mobile phone
Source: WeProtect Global Alliance and Economist Impact 2023
55% of children
in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, have access to the internet through a personal mobile device
Source: Economist Impact, 2023
50% growth in non-English
language terminology related to child sexual abuse
Source: Crisp, 2023
30 of the top 50 online platforms
do not issue transparency reports covering steps taken to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse online
Source: OECD, 2023
Decrease by almost 80%
the number of reports of suspected child sexual abuse from larger platforms will reduce with the adoption of E2EE
Source: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 2023
3 million CAD (approx. £1.8 million)
the budget allocated by the Government of Canada to support a comprehensive approach to combating online child sexual exploitation, including prevention measures
Source: PA Consulting engagement with Talking for Change, 2023
23% increase
in number of countries collecting prevalence data on the number of recorded and reported cases of sexual violence against children, since 2019
Source: Out of the Shadows Index, 2022
83% of countries
surveyed conduct some form of national research, analysis, and monitoring of online-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse
Source: WeProtect Global Alliance and UNICEF, 2022
50% of countries
surveyed have discussed or adopted universally agreed terminology
Source: WeProtect Global Alliance and UNICEF, 2022
In 2022, 68%
of suspected child sexual abuse material cases were referred to law enforcement – a 20% increase from 2021
Source: INHOPE, 2023
43% of the 111 million TikTok videos
removed from the platform in 2022 were removed by automated systems
Source: The Verge 2022
88 million
of the Cyber Tipline reports received in 2022 contained media files, of which 37 million were videos
Source: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 2022
89 UN Member States
and 344 investigators are registered to the AI for Safer Children Global Hub
Source: email received from Ministry of Interior, United Arab Emirates 26/07/2023
12 in 13 countries
not connected to INTERPOL’s International Child Sexual Exploitation (ICSE) database are low- and middle-income countries
Source: WeProtect Global Alliance and UNICEF, 2022
39% of surveyed
dark web users reported they had viewed child sexual abuse livestreaming
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