Global Sexual Violence Against Children Prevalence Estimates 1990-2023

Sexual violence against children (SVAC) is a pervasive health and human rights issue that curtails the safety and wellbeing of children globally and accounts for a substantial portion of morbidity. To counter SVAC’s compounding impacts on health and development, there have been increasing investments in global movements towards prevention and ending SVAC and other forms of violence against children. However, the future success of such prevention efforts relies on accurately monitoring and characterizing experiences of SVAC. This dataset provides estimates on the prevalence of contact SVAC before the age of 18 for 204 countries by age and sex, from 1990 to 2023. It also contains information on the age at which survivors of lifetime sexual violence first experienced sexual violence.