The overlooked statistics - Social Studies

                         The overlooked statistics

600,000 to 800,000 women, children and men bought and sold across international borders every year and exploited for forced labor or commercial sex.

When internal trafficking victims are added to the estimates, the number of victims annually is in the range of 2 to 4 million.

50% of those victims are estimated to be children.

It is estimated that 76 percent of transactions for sex with underage girls start on the internet.

2 million children are subjected to prostitution in the global commercial sex trade (UNICEF)

There are 20.9 million victims of trafficking world wide as of 2012.

1.5 million victims in the United States.

Trafficking women and children for sexual exploitation is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world.

Women and girls make up 96% of victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation.

Demand fuels sex trafficking. Sweden, Norway, Iceland, France, Canada, Northern Ireland and Ireland have effectively addressed the demand for commercial sex and sex trafficking by decriminalizing prostituted persons, and criminalizing those who purchase sex.

An estimated 30,000 victims of sex trafficking die each year from abuse, disease, torture and neglect.

Eighty percent of those sold into sex slavery are under the age of 24 and some are as young as six years old.

Ludwig “Tarzan” Fainberg, a convicted trafficker, said, “You can buy a woman for $10,000 and make your money back in a week if she is pretty and young. Then everything else is profit".