This statistic presents the percentage of middle and high school students in the United States who were cyber bullied, divided by the type of cyber bullying endured. During the April 2019 survey, 10.1 percent of cyber bullying victims had been impersonated online during the last 30 days. Cyber bullying includes unwanted contact by threatening or insulting the respondent via digital communications as well as sharing private information online. Overall, 36.5 percent of U.S. middle and high school students have ever been cyber bullied.
Percentage of U.S. middle and high school students who were cyber bullied as of April 2019, by type of cyber bullying
Characteristic
Share of respondents
I have been cyber bullied
17.4%
Mean or hurtful comments online
24.9%
Rumors online
22.2%
Threatened to hurt me through a cell phone text
12.2%
Posted mean names or comments online about me with a sexual meaning
12%
Threatened to hurt me online
11.7%
Posted a mean or hurtful picture online of me
10.8%
Pretended to be me online
10.1%
Posted mean names or comments about my race or color
9.5%
Posted a mean or hurtful video online of me
7.1%
Posten mean names or comments online about my religion
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Cyberbullying Research Center. (July 9, 2019). Percentage of U.S. middle and high school students who were cyber bullied as of April 2019, by type of cyber bullying [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 24, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/291025/cyber-bullying-share-of-us-students-by-type-of-cyber-bullying/
Cyberbullying Research Center. "Percentage of U.S. middle and high school students who were cyber bullied as of April 2019, by type of cyber bullying." Chart. July 9, 2019. Statista. Accessed December 24, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/291025/cyber-bullying-share-of-us-students-by-type-of-cyber-bullying/
Cyberbullying Research Center. (2019). Percentage of U.S. middle and high school students who were cyber bullied as of April 2019, by type of cyber bullying. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 24, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/291025/cyber-bullying-share-of-us-students-by-type-of-cyber-bullying/
Cyberbullying Research Center. "Percentage of U.S. Middle and High School Students Who Were Cyber Bullied as of April 2019, by Type of Cyber Bullying." Statista, Statista Inc., 9 Jul 2019, https://www.statista.com/statistics/291025/cyber-bullying-share-of-us-students-by-type-of-cyber-bullying/
Cyberbullying Research Center, Percentage of U.S. middle and high school students who were cyber bullied as of April 2019, by type of cyber bullying Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/291025/cyber-bullying-share-of-us-students-by-type-of-cyber-bullying/ (last visited December 24, 2024)
Percentage of U.S. middle and high school students who were cyber bullied as of April 2019, by type of cyber bullying [Graph], Cyberbullying Research Center, July 9, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/291025/cyber-bullying-share-of-us-students-by-type-of-cyber-bullying/
