There's approximately over 20 million people trafficked in the world today. According to the U.S State Department, 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year. 80% of which being female and half of that being children. While world wide statistics say, 51% of identified victims are women, 28% are children, and 21% men. Also that 72% of people exploited in the sex industry are women. Traffickers pay no attention to age, race, or gender when buying and selling their victims. However human trafficking targets poorer people more often then say the average Canadian. This is because they are an "easier" target because they are always looking for work and will take any job offered to them. Even still the average Canadian can get trafficked. Canadian human trafficking says 93% of trafficking victims in Canada are female. While 83% of police reported perpetrators are male. In other places like the US, Florida is the third leading state in the nation, with a 550 reported cases on human trafficking. So there you have it, trafficking isn't just a foreign issue it happens in all across North America too. This is because traffickers go for any vulnerable people, so people without work, in poverty, homeless, and in desperate need and that can be anybody.
This is important to know for the bigger question because it gives actually answers and specific statistics on how many people are truly being affected by this issue. This helps to see the broader spectrum of human trafficking and the scary truth that nobody is safe. Human trafficking affects all us and anybody can get trafficked.
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