There were a total of 103,794 reported human trafficking offenses related to commercial sex offenses in 2021 in the United States. In that same year, there were 41,467 clearances for commercial sex acts and 9,408 clearances for involuntary servitude.
Number of human trafficking offenses and clearances in the United States in 2021, by type
Human trafficking commercial sex acts are defined as: inducing a person by force, fraud, or coercion to participate in commercial sex acts, or in which the person induced to perform such act(s) has not attained 18 years of age.
Human trafficking involuntary servitude is defined as: obtaining of a person(s) through recruitment, harboring, transportation, or provision, and subjecting such persons by force, fraud, or coercion into involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery (not to include commercial sex acts).
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