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  • The International Labour Organization estimates that there are 40.3 million victims of human trafficking globally.

    • 81% of them are trapped in forced labor.

    • 25% of them are children.

    • 75% are women and girls.

  • The International Labor Organization estimates that forced labor and human trafficking is a $150 billion industry worldwide.

  • The U.S. Department of Labor has identified 148 goods from 75 countries made by forced and child labor.

  • In 2018, an estimated 1 out of 7 endangered runaways reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were likely child sex trafficking victims.

    • Of those, 88% were in the care of social services or foster care when they ran.

  • There is no official estimate of the total number of human trafficking victims in the U.S. Polaris estimates that the total number of victims nationally reaches into the hundreds of thousands when estimates of both adults and minors and sex trafficking and labor trafficking are aggregated.

2018 STATISTICS

Polaris reports that most reported trafficking cases concerned escort services (1,572), followed by residential (508), and outdoor solicitation (329). The average age that trafficking began was identified as 19. Crucially, the statistics include the recruitment tactics of traffickers. While not all victims reported on their recruitment, intimate partner/marriage proposition was the most common among those who did. This was accompanied by familial relations posing as a benefactor, job offers, and false promises and/or fraud.

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Raynesha Lewis

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