Published figure

61%

Of 616 U.S. hotline cases (2007–2016) involving sexually explicit digital content, the people exploited were minors. Remote interactive sexual acts (webcams, paid chats) were a separate trafficking type in the same analysis.

What this number is

In the subset of U.S. hotline cases that involved sexually explicit digital content, most of the people exploited were minors. Webcam and paid-chat exploitation was classified separately as remote interactive sexual acts.

Caveats

616 cases is a slice of hotline data, not all trafficking. Digital-content cases may over-represent people whose exploitation left a file. It still does not tell you the size of the illegal market.

What the 90% is for

The pledge sits on both ends of that market: men leaving the demand that pays for files and live streams, and money going to the organizations that identify children in those files and house the people who were recorded.