Share of removed YouTube videos by reason 2024

During the fourth quarter of 2024, around 53.8 percent of videos removed from YouTube were deleted due to child safety reasons. This represents a decrease from the previous quarter, when the videos removed from the platform due to this reason made-up around 56.5 percent of the total removed videos. During the last measured quarter, another one percent of flagged videos were removed due to spam or misleading content.

Distribution of videos removed from YouTube worldwide from 2nd quarter 2019 to 4th 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
Q4 2024	1%	53.8%	5.4%	8.9%	16%	3.5%	2.5%	0.7%	7.6%	0.7%
Q3 2024	0.9%	56.5%	5.3%	7.7%	11.1%	2.9%	2.1%	1.4%	11.1%	0.9%
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%	-

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