There is 27 million people around the world who are bought and sold for sexual exploitation hard labor, domestic work and as soldiers.
More than one million new people are trafficked annually worldwide.
Estimate of 2 million are sold into sex slavery around the world every year.
According to the U.N. about, 2.5 million people around the world are ensnared in the web of human trafficking at any given time.
Eighty percent are women and sixty percent are children.
The United Nation recorded that 700,000 to 2,000,000 women and children are being trafficked yearly worldwide.
Approximately 2,000 to 6,000 women and children who are trafficked on a daily basis.
Every minute two children becomes victims of human trafficking.
In the United States department of Justice estimates 100,000 to 300,000 Americans kids are under 18 years old are involved in prostitution and is targeted by sexual predators.
The FBI says the average of sexual age of a child exploited is 11 years old.
The 1999 CIA report estimates that 45,000 to 50,000 women are trafficked annually to the U.S. with approximately 30,000women and children from Southeast Asia, 10,000 from Latin America, 4,000 from Eastern Europe and 1,000 from other regions.
Seventy percent are women and fifty percent are children.
Approximately 117,000 Ukrainians are trafficked.
In Russia estimates that 500,000 women from Central and Eastern Europe are involved in prostitution.
One Southeast Asian country is estimated to have 30,000 children that are exploited in the sex trade and as many as one third of these are under 18 years old.
The owner of brothel in Southeast Asia can buy a women or child as little as 50 dollars
Human trafficking is a lucrative business generating an estimated 9.5 billion dollars per year globally.
Human trafficking has become the fastest-growing source of profit for organized criminal enterprises worldwide.
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