Table 1 Country-level prevalence and population impact of technology-facilitated CSEA among children aged 12–17 years (2020–2021)

From: Technology mediation in child sexual exploitation and abuse in Africa and Asia

Country

Prevalence of technology-facilitated CSEA among internet using children aged 12–17 (%)

Proportion of child internet users, aged 12–17 (%)

Prevalence of technology-facilitated CSEA among all children (%) (uncertainty, %)

Estimated number of children affected

Child population aged 12–17

Cambodia

14.7

81.0

11.9 (9.9–14.1)

215,962 (179,843–256,539)

1,819,679

Ethiopia

18.6

25.0

4.6 (3.5–6.1)

775,526 (581,437–1,018,510)

16,680,781

Indonesia

6.6

92.0

6.1 (4.6–7.9)

1,665,769 (1,250,027–2,150,872)

27,231,704

Kenya

21.7

67.0

14.5 (12.4–16.8)

1,096,163 (932,413–1,269,843)

7,539,254

Malaysia

10.2

94.0

9.6 (7.6–12.0)

306,234 (241,236–380,807)

3,178,610

Mozambique

25.9

56.0

14.5 (12.3–17.0)

634,331 (536,934–744,858)

4,381,428

Namibia

20.0

81.0

16.2 (13.6–18.9)

47,686 (40,172–55,612)

294,899

The Philippines

28.6

95.0

27.1 (23.1–30.6)

3,580,485 (3,043,351–4,035,759)

13,190,360

Tanzania

7.7

67.0

5.2 (4.0–6.7)

456,274 (353,053–589,653)

8,813,838

Thailand

17.0

92.0

15.6 (13.0–18.2)

769,133 (642,336–896,437)

4,922,710

Uganda

27.7

40.0

11.1 (9.1–13.3)

755,632 (623,496–907,413)

6,819,466

Vietnam

5.5

89.0

4.9 (3.6–6.5)

410,438 (300,307–548,994)

8,421,996

  1. The first column lists countries included in the Disrupting Harm data. The second column shows the prevalence of technology-facilitated CSEA among internet-using 12–17-year-old children who experienced any form of technology-facilitated CSEA in 2020–2021, estimated from the Disrupting Harm child survey using nationally representative probability samples with design weights. The third column shows the proportion of child internet users: percentage of all 12–17-year-old children in each country who use the internet (any use, any device), estimated from the Disrupting Harm household survey module administered at every sampled household. The fourth column shows the prevalence of technology-facilitated CSEA among all children as the percentage of all 12–17-year-old children who experienced technology-facilitated CSEA, calculated by multiplying prevalence among internet users (second column) by the proportion of child internet users (third column) in each country; uncertainty was propagated using Monte Carlo simulation (5,000 iterations per country). The fifth column shows the estimated number of affected children, representing the absolute number of 12–17-year-old children estimated to have experienced technology-facilitated CSEA in each country, calculated by applying the prevalence among all children (column 4) to the total population aged 12–17 (column 6). 95% CIs reflect uncertainty in prevalence only (population treated as fixed). The sixth column shows the child population aged 12–17, representing the total number of children aged 12–17 in each country, derived from United Nations World Population Prospects 2022 (reference year, 2020).
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