Einar H. Dyvik
Research expert covering Nordics and global data for society, economy, and politics
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The share of children of the victims of human trafficking in the world varies greatly from region to region. In Central America and the Caribbean, more than 70 percent of the victims were children, and nearly 60 percent of all the victims were girls. Children also made up a majority of the victims in North and Sub-Saharan Africa, and in the former, the share of boys was slightly higher than the share of girls. In many regions, women made up a majority of the victims, but in Eastern Europe, nearly two thirds were men.
