In the second round of Disrupting Harm, two additional indicators were included:
• Someone threatened to share sexual images or videos of me
• Someone used Artificial Intelligence to create fake sexual images or videos of me
These indicators were coded using the same binary approach described above. Analyses of these
two forms of abuse are used in the report and presented separately, but not included in the
aggregate statistics. They are based on data from the nine countries included in the second round
of the study.
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Finding: “Across 21 countries, 20 million children aged 12-17 were subjected to at least one
form of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation and abuse in a single year. That is about 1 in 5
internet-using children, on average.”
Table overview: Table A01 presents the estimated number and weighted prevalence of internetusing children aged 12–17 in each country who reported being subjected to at least one form of
technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse in the one year preceding the survey.
Country estimates are drawn from different waves of the Disrupting Harm study and therefore
reflect data collected between 2020–2021 and 2024–2025. The table also presents the sum of the
country-level population estimates and the average prevalence across the 21 countries included in
the analysis.
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