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Basic Statistics

Trafficking in women and children for the purposes of sexual exploitation is not amenable to traditional forms of data collection or social research. Therefore there are unfortunately no accurate estimates available either nationally or internationally.

The following statistics are ESTIMATES only:

Trafficking

 

Finding	Source	Method
Profits from trafficking in human beings now amount to $7 billion annually	United Nations, 1999	Not specified
Trafficking in human beings and illegal immigration is now equivalent in financial terms to drug trafficking	United Nations, 1999	Not specified
Up to 1,420 women per year are trafficked into the UK for sexual exploitation	Kelly and Regan, 2000	A range of quantitative and qualitative data collection methods, using primary and secondary sources
500,000 women were trafficked into the EU in 1995	International Organisation for Migration (IOM), 1996a	Not specified

Country Data on Prostitution and Trafficking in women and girls

Source: Hughes et al. (1999)

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Country	Estimated statistics
Belgium	An estimated 28,000 prostitutes, about half from abroad, mainly Western Europe. 2,000 foreign prostitutes in Belgium are from developing countries and Central and Eastern Europe.
Cambodia	An estimated 10,000-20,000 women and children in prostitution in Phnom Penh, a city of 1 million; up to 35% of them have been smuggled into Cambodia from China or Vietnam.
Dominican Republic	An estimated 50,000 women from the Dominican Republic overseas in the sex industry.
Ghana	In Accra alone, there are 125 brothels where young girls are forced into prostitution.
India	An estimated 10 million prostitutes in India. Around 160,000 Nepalese women are held in India's brothels.
Indonesia	At least 650,000 prostitutes in Indonesia; 30% are children.
Italy	An estimated 19,000-25,000 foreign prostitutes; approximately 2,000 have been trafficked.
Israel	An estimated 70% of prostituted women in Tel Aviv come from the former Soviet republics, and about 1,000 women are brought into Israel illegally each year.
Mexico	An estimated 5,000 children are currently involved in prostitution, pornography and sex-tourism in Mexico.
Philippines	An estimated 400,000 women in prostitution, a quarter of whom are children. 150,000 Filipina women have been trafficked into prostitution in Japan.
Taiwan	An estimated 60,000 female child prostitutes aged 12-17.
Tanzania	There are at least 800 children in prostitution in Arusha, Dar es Salaam and Singida.
Ukraine	More than 100,000 Ukrainian women, many of them minors, have been trapped and enslaved as prostitutes in the West; 1,000 Ukrainian women are in prostitution in Poland.

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