Statistics: Pornography, Prostitution, Sex Trafficking, and Abortion

Pornography

Internet Pornography Statistics
Pornographic websites: 4.2 million (12% of total websites)
Pornographic pages: 420 million
Daily pornographic search engine requests: 68 million (25% of total search engine requests)
Daily pornographic emails: 2.5 billion (8% of total emails)
Internet users who view porn: 42.7%
Received unwanted exposure to sexual material: 34%
Average daily pornographic emails/user: 4.5 per Internet user
Monthly Pornographic downloads (Peer-to-peer):1.5 billion (35% of all downloads)
Websites offering illegal child pornography: 100,000
Worldwide visitors to pornographic web sites Monthly: 72 million visitors to pornography
Internet Pornography Sales: $4.9 billion

Children Internet Pornography Statistics
Average age of first Internet exposure to pornography: 11 years old
Largest consumer of Internet pornography: 35 - 49 age group
15-17 year olds having multiple hard-core exposures: 80%
8-16 year olds having viewed porn online: 90% (most while doing homework)

Adult Internet Pornography Statistics
Men admitting to accessing pornography at work: 20%
US adults who regularly visit Internet pornography websites: 40 million
Christians who said pornography is a major problem in the home: 47%
Adults admitting to Internet sexual addiction: 10%
Breakdown of male/female visitors to pornography sites: 72% male - 28% female

Prostitution

Worldwide
UNICEF estimates that as many as 2 million children are subjected to prostitution in the global commercial sex trade.
In 2003 it was estimated that in Amsterdam, one woman in 35 was working as a prostitute.
In the Netherlands, prostitution is approximately a $1 billion per year industry.
In 2001, the number of prostitutes in the world was estimated at 40 million.

United States
15% of all men have paid for sex and 30% of single men over age 30 have paid for sex.
Among voluntary substance abuse program participants, 41.4% of women and 11.2% of men reported selling prostitution services during 2008.
Nevada and Rhode Island are the only US states where the buying and selling of sexual services is legal.
The National Task Force on Prostitution suggests that over 1 million people in the US have worked as prostitutes in the United States.
Between 300,000 & 400,000 American children and youth are victimized by sexual exploitation each year.

Sex Trafficking

Worldwide
Worldwide, there are nearly 2 million children in the commercial sex trade.
International Labor Organization (ILO)-the United Nations agency charged with addressing labor standards, employment, and social protection issues-estimates that there are at least 12.3 million adults and children in forced labor, bonded labor, and commercial sexual servitude at any given time. Of these victims, the ILO estimates that at least 1.39 million are victims of commercial sexual servitude, both transnational and within countries.
According to the ILO, 56 percent of all forced labor victims are women and girls.
A non-governmental organization (NGO), Free the Slaves, estimates that there are 27 million slaves in the world today.
Human trafficking is the world's 3rd largest criminal enterprise, after drugs and weapons.
Approximately 80% of human trafficking victims are women and girls, and up to 50% are minors.
The total market value of illicit human trafficking is estimated to be in excess of $32 billion.

United States
Approximately 17,500 to 18,500 people are trafficked into the United States annually


Abortion

Worldwide
Number of abortions per year: Approximately 42 Million
Number of abortions per day: Approximately 115,000
Where abortions occur: 83% of all abortions are obtained in developing countries and 17% occur in eveloped countries.

United States
Number of abortions per year: 1.37 Million (1996)
Number of abortions per day: Approximately 3,700

Who's having abortions (age)?
52% of women obtaining abortions in the U.S. are younger than 25: Women aged 20-24 obtain 32% of all abortions; Teenagers obtain 20% and girls under 15 account for 1.2%.

Who's having abortions (race)?
While white women obtain 60% of all abortions, their abortion rate is well below that of minority women. Black women are more than 3 times as likely as white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are roughly 2 times as likely.

Who's having abortions (marital status)?
64.4% of all abortions are performed on never-married women; Married women account for 18.4% of all abortions and divorced women obtain 9.4%.

Who's having abortions (religion)?
Women identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4% of all abortions in the U.S.; Catholic women account for 31.3%, Jewish women account for 1.3%, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7% of all abortions. 18% of all abortions are performed on women who identify themselves as "Born-again/Evangelical".

Who's having abortions (income)?
Women with family incomes less than $15,000 obtain 28.7% of all abortions; Women with family incomes between $15,000 and $29,999 obtain 19.5%; Women with family incomes between $30,000 and $59,999 obtain 38.0%; Women with family incomes over $60,000 obtain 13.8%.

Why women have abortions
1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient).

At what gestational ages are abortions performed:
52% of all abortions occur before the 9th week of pregnancy, 25% happen between the 9th & 10th week, 12% happen between the 11th and 12th week, 6% happen between the 13th & 15th week, 4% happen between the 16th & 20th week, and 1% of all abortions (16,450/yr.) happen after the 20th week of pregnancy.

Likelihood of abortion:
An estimated 43% of all women will have at least 1 abortion by the time they are 45 years old. 47% of all abortions are performed on women who have had at least one previous abortion.