International

• It’s estimated that at least 27 million people are currently enslaved around the world. (Not For Sale(NFS), by David Batstone)
  
  
• Approximately 800,000 people annually are trafficked across national borders. Around 80% of these victims are women and girls and up to 50% are minors. The majority of females are trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation. (2007 Trafficking in Persons Report, U.S. State Department)
  
  
• UNICEF now believes that the number of children trafficked each year is around 1.2 million. (UNICEF, 2006). 
  
  
• It’s estimated that Human Trafficking is a $32 billion dollar a year industry, making it the second most lucrative crime in the world, second only to the sale of drugs. About $28 billion of this is generated from commercial sexual exploitation. (International Labour Office (ILO)
  
  
• From four and five year olds being forced to have sex with dozens of clients a night in Southeast Asia, to 40,000 child soldiers in Uganda, to 15 million bonded slaves in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal, human trafficking is a global crisis. (NFS, Batstone & The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam)

National

• 45,000-50,000 persons are trafficked into the U.S. each year; 15,000 of them are children. (ECPAT-USA)
  
  
• Forced labor is most prevalent in five sectors of the U.S. economy; prostitution and sex services (46%); domestic service (27%); agriculture (10%); sweatshop/factory work (5%); and restaurant and hotel work (4%). (NFS, Batstone)
  
  
• Mexican, eastern European, and Asian crime syndicates run extensive trafficking rings inside the United States. They particularly target migrant groups. (NFS, Batstone)
  
  
• The average age of entry into prostitution or the commercial sex industry in the U.S. is 11 to 14 years old. (Shared Hope International)
  
  
• A 2002 study indicated that 90% of runaways become part of the commercial sex industry. (Shared Hope International)

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