Human Trafficking Stats​

• Trafficking is highly personal: most people are comfortable with their trafficker

  • 42% were brought into trafficking by a member of their own families

  • 39% were recruited via an intimate partner or a marriage proposition

• During lockdowns, the internet became the top recruitment location for trafficking

• 13 years old is the average age someone is entered into trafficking 

• Human trafficking earns profits of roughly $150 billion a year for traffickers

  • Sexual exploitation earns 66% of the global profits of human trafficking​