Share of sex trafficking victims in Central America 2003-2021, by age

Published by Statista Research Department, Jul 21, 2023
From 2003 to 2021, 48 percent of the sex trafficking victims in Central America and the Caribbean were minors between zero and 17 years old. This share went down to 27 percent in the neighboring South America.

Share of sex trafficking victims in Central America and the Caribbean from 2003 to 2021, by age group

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February 2022

Region

LAC

Survey time period

2003 to 2021

Special properties

includes Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, and the Caribbean islands

Supplementary notes

The source defines sex trafficking as “the range of activities involved when a trafficker uses force, fraud, or coercion to compel another person to engage in a commercial sex act”.

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