In 2023, the number of registered victims of trafficking in human beings in the EU was 10 793. There were 8 471 suspected traffickers and 2 309 convicted traffickers.
Nearly two-thirds (63%) of the registered victims of human trafficking were women or girls. Meanwhile, less than a quarter of suspected and convicted traffickers were women (24% and 23%, respectively).
Among the registered victims whose form of exploitation was reported, there were 4 201 victims trafficked for sexual exploitation (43.8% of all victims), 3 457 victims trafficked for forced labour (36.0%) and 1 937 victims trafficked for other purposes, such as organ removal, benefit fraud, criminal activities, forced begging and others (20.2% of all trafficking victims).
There was a notable increase in the number of registered victims trafficked for forced labour or services. Between 2008 and 2018 the share of these victims stood between 14% and 21% and from 2019 onwards the share was between 28% and 41%.
Source dataset: crim_thb_vexp
Source: Eurostat, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=ddn-20250403-1
