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Finding: “An estimated 9 million children were asked to engage in sexual conversations or to share
sexual images or videos when they did not want to. That is about 1 in 12 internet-using children on
average, in a single year.”
Table overview: Table A03 presents the estimated number and weighted prevalence of internetusing children aged 12–17 who said the following happened to them in the year prior to the
survey: “Someone asked me to talk about sex or sexual acts when I did not want to” and “Someone
asked me to share an image or video showing their private parts when I did not want to”. 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 countrylevel population estimates and the average prevalence across the 21 countries included in the
analysis.
Table A03: Estimated number and weighted prevalence of internet-using children aged 12–17
who were asked to talk about sex or sexual acts when they did not want to, or to share an image or
video showing their private parts when they did not want to, in the year prior to being surveyed, by
country (2020–2025).
Country
Number of children
subjected to abuse
Percentage of subjected to
abuse
Armenia
3694
1.7
Brazil
1726839
10.5
Cambodia
145360
10.5
Colombia
267432
6.2
Dominican Republic
93556
8.1
Ethiopia
430347
13.1
Indonesia
466130
1.9
Kenya
634505
13
Malaysia
118022
4.3
Mexico
613623
4.8
Montenegro
3211
6.8
Mozambique
329237
14.3
Namibia
27378
11.4
North Macedonia
7458
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