Share of removed YouTube videos by reason 2024 | Statista

During the second quarter of 2024, around 59.4 percent of videos removed from YouTube were deleted due to child safety reasons. This represents an increase from the previous quarter, when the videos removed from the platform due to this reason made-up around 43.4 percent of the total removed videos. During the last measured quarter, another 1.3 percent of flagged videos were removed due to spam or misleading content.

Distribution of videos removed from YouTube worldwide from 2nd quarter 2019 to 2nd quarter 2024, by reason

Characteristic	Spam, misleading and scams	Child safety	Nudity or sexual	Violent or graphic	Harmful or dangerous	Promotion of violence and violent extremism	Hateful or abusive	Other	Harassment and cyberbullying	Misinformation
Q2 2024	1.3%	59.4%	4.9%	7.6%	12.2%	3%	1.9%	2.6%	5.9%	1.2%
Q1 2024	1.1%	43.4%	5.7%	9.5%	26.5%	3.7%	1.9%	1.4%	5.4%	1.4%
Q4 2023	1.6%	32.4%	5.5%	7.5%	39.2%	4.1%	2%	0.9%	4.9%	1.9%
Q3 2023	4.5%	36.9%	7.5%	11.1%	27.9%	2%	2.3%	0.8%	6.3%	0.6%
Q2 2023	13.1%	34.1%	10.1%	12.8%	17%	1.4%	2.6%	1.2%	6.6%	1.1%
Q1 2023	5.3%	34.3%	10.2%	15.6%	20.9%	1.2%	2.7%	1.1%	7.6%	1.1%
Q4 2022	4.6%	34%	12.1%	16.4%	17.1%	1.3%	3.8%	0.5%	8.3%	-
Q3 2022	3.9%	36%	13.7%	18.4%	11.4%	1.2%	2.8%	0.4%	10%	-
Q2 2022	30.8%	30.8%	14.8%	20%	11.9%	1.6%	3.2%	0.5%	11.1%	-
Q1 2022	9.5%	24.9%	16.9%	21.2%	12.4%	1.6%	2.5%	0.2%	10.9%	-
Q4 2021	9.1%	31.5%	18.4%	19.9%	8.1%	1.9%	2.4%	0.1%	8.6%	-
Q3 2021	9.8%	31.9%	18.4%	23.3%	4.5%	4%	1.8%	1.7%	4.6%	-
Q2 2021	14.1%	29.9%	22.4%	16.8%	4.8%	6.9%	1.4%	0.1%	3.7%	-
Q1 2021	7.9%	53.6%	16.5%	15.6%	2.2%	0.9%	0.9%	0.8%	1.6%	-
Q4 2020	15.5%	41%	15.8%	20.6%	2.8%	0.8%	1%	1.7%	0.8%	-
Q3 2020	25.5%	31.7%	20%	14.2%	2.5%	2.5%	1.1%	1.9%	0.6%	-
Q2 2020	28.3%	33.5%	14.6%	10.6%	1.8%	8.1%	0.7%	1.5%	0.9%	-
Q1 2020	37%	24.3%	14.3%	11.4%	5%	4.2%	1.8%	1.4%	0.6%	-
Q4 2019	52%	15.8%	14.1%	9.8%	3.1%	1.4%	1.5%	1.7%	0.6%	-
Q3 2019	54.4%	9.7%	14.4%	15.5%	1.7%	1%	0.9%	1.9%	0.5%	-
Q2 2019	66.7%	8.4%	14.8%	5.2%	1.1%	0.8%	1.2%	1.3%	0.4%	-
Q1 2019	60.2%	9.7%	20.5%	4.3%	0.8%	1.1%	0.2%	2.6%	0.6%	-

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