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Finding: “An estimated 15 million children were exposed to sexual content they did not want to
see in just one year.”
Table overview: Table A02 presents the estimated number and weighted prevalence of internetusing children aged 12–17 in each country who reported being exposed to sexual images or
videos they did not want to see in the year prior to being surveyed. 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.
Table A02: Estimated number and weighted prevalence of internet-using children aged 12–17
who were exposed to unwanted sexual content online in the year prior to being surveyed, by
country (2020–2025).
Country
Number of children
subjected to abuse
Percentage of subjected to
abuse
Armenia
6343
2.8
Brazil
2274885
13.7
Cambodia
243811
17.2
Colombia
639953
14.6
Dominican Republic
174909
15.1
Ethiopia
701396
20.4
Indonesia
1630953
6.7
Kenya
995260
20.1
Malaysia
247644
8.8
Mexico
924033
7.1
Montenegro
3106
6.6
Mozambique
630945
27
Namibia
38123
15.8
North Macedonia
9436
7.5
Pakistan
714954
2.9
Philippines
3570177
31
Serbia
22864
5.9
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