Sex Trafficking
54834%Coercing or deceiving a person into commercial sexual exploitation. Consent is legally irrelevant when a minor is involved.
The data
Types of modern slavery
SlaveryMap files every case under one of 12 types of modern slavery. The most documented are sex trafficking (34% of cases), CSEC (24%) and child labor (17%). Grouped here into five families.
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Sex Trafficking 34%CSEC 24%Forced Labor 10%Bonded Labor 3%Child Labor 17%Domestic Servitude 9%Forced Marriage 0%Forced Criminality 4%Ecocide-Linked Slavery 0%
Sexual exploitation
937 cases · 57%CSEC
38924%The commercial sexual exploitation of a person under 18. Treated as trafficking under international law regardless of apparent consent.
Labor
211 cases · 13%Forced Labor
15510%Work extracted from a person under threat, coercion, or deception, in industries from agriculture to construction to fishing.
Bonded Labor
563%Also called debt bondage: a person is forced to work to repay a debt whose terms are manipulated so it can never be cleared.
State-Imposed Labor
0Forced labor exacted directly by governments: prison labor below international standards, or civilians mobilized under threat of penalty.
No cases documented yetDefinition
Children
275 cases · 17%Child Labor
27517%Work that deprives children of their childhood, education, or healthy development — from hazardous labor to forced participation in armed conflict.
Child Soldiers & Recruitment
0The conscription, recruitment, or use of children under 18 by armed forces or groups, typically through abduction or coercion in conflict zones.
No cases documented yetDefinition
Coercion and control
206 cases · 13%Domestic Servitude
1399%Forced labor inside a private home — cooking, cleaning, childcare — where isolation hides the abuse from view.
Forced Marriage
10%A marriage in which one or both people have not given free and full consent, often used as a cover for exploitation.
Forced Criminality
664%Victims coerced into committing crimes — drug trafficking, theft, online scam operations — on behalf of traffickers, then often prosecuted for it.
Environment and body
2 cases · 0%Ecocide-Linked Slavery
20%Forced labor that exists because an ecosystem was destroyed first: workers trapped in illegal mining, logging, or fishing on already-degraded land.
Organ Trafficking
0The illegal removal, sale, or transplantation of human organs, targeting people coerced or deceived in desperate financial circumstances.
No cases documented yetDefinition