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Facts to know about the world's $32 billion sex industry

New Delhi: Sex trafficking is an illicit business that is mostly kept hidden from our view.It is one of the three largest criminal industries, following just behind arms and drugs and values around $32 billion.Poverty


 

5. Japan is considered the largest market for Asian women trafficked for sex.

 

6. More than 30% of all trafficking cases in 2007-2008 involved children being sold into the sex industry.

 

7. Nearly 7,000 Nepali girls as young as nine years old are sold every year into India's red-light district—or 200,000 in the last decade.

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