In 2022, there were over *** thousand kidnapping and abduction cases reported in India. The leading reason for this crime was missing children deemed as kidnapped with over ** thousand cases that year.

The average for 2017 based on 65 countries was 1.8 kidnappings per 100,000 people. The highest value was in Belgium: 10.3 kidnappings per 100,000 people and the lowest value was in Bermuda: 0 kidnappings per 100,000 people. The indicator is available from 2003 to 2017. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh had the highest number of kidnapping and abduction victims reported in 2022 with over ** thousand victims. Furthermore, there were more than *** thousand kidnapping and abduction victims in the country that year.

Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India has defined missing child as 'a person below eighteen years of age, whose whereabouts are not known to the parents, legal guardians and any other persons who may be legally entrusted with the custody of the child, whatever may be the circumstances/causes of disappearance”. The dataset contains the state wise and gender-wise number of children reported missing in a particular year, total number of persons missing including those from previous years, number of persons recovered/traced and those unrecovered/untraced. The dataset also contains the percentage recovery of missing persons which is calculated as the percentage share of total number of persons traced over the total number of persons missing. NCRB started providing detailed data on missing & traced persons including children from 2016 onwards following the Supreme Court’s direction in a Writ Petition. It should also be noted that the data published by NCRB is restricted to those cases where FIRs have been registered by the police in respective States/UTs.

In 2022, more than ** thousand children in India were missing. In comparison to the previous year, the number of missing children in the country increased significantly. Many of these cases were likely to have close links to human trafficking and child labor.

In 2022, reported child marriage cases accounted for **** percent of the total crime committed against children in India. In the last few years, this number went through a major change. Child marriage is illegal in India as per the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929.

The dataset contains year- and state-wise compiled data on the total number of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and other Special and Local Laws (SLL) cases registered against Juveniles, along with rate of crimes per each lakh of children population.

The dataset contains year-, type-of-crime- and gender-wise compiled data on the number of different types of crimes which were committed against children and the number of victims who were affected by the same crimes. The different types of crimes covered in the dataset include kidnapping and abduction crimes such as kidanapping and abduction for the purpose of murder, begging, ransom, compelling for marriage, procuration of minor girls, importation of girls from foreign countries, missing deemed as kidnapped, etc., fatal crimes such as murder, attempt to commit murder, muder with rape, abetment of suicide of child, infanticide, foeticide, trafficking and sexual crimes such buying and selling of minors for prostitution, use of children for pornography, transmiting sexual content and material involving children in sexually explicit acts, sexual assualt, penetrative sexual assault, rape, and other crimes such as child labour, child marriage, exposure, abandaonment, simple hurt, grievous hurt, insult and assualt of damage modesty, crimes under juvenile justice act and transplantation of organs act, etc.

Data on Crimes in India - total crimes, crime rate, conviction rate, crimes against women and children, cyber crimes, chargesheeting rate.

In India in 2022, the crime rate against children in the capital territory of Delhi was at ***** per 100,000 children. This was followed by the union territory of Andaman and Nicobar with *** reported cases per 100,000 child population.

In 2021, sexual crime against girls in India accounted for nearly 39 percent of the total crime committed against children. A slight decline in this crime rate was seen from the previous year. The disproportionate number of crimes against female children in the country is a result of several psychological and patriarchal reasons.

This statistic shows the number of juvenile crime incidents in India in 2016. That year, a total of ****** cases of juvenile crime were reported. Out of this, a majority were cases of theft with ***** reported incidents. Only *** cases were registered under the Juvenile Justice (care & protection of Children Act, 2000).

In 2022, the state of Karnataka in India had the highest number of child pornography crimes compared to the rest of the country, with more than *** cases registered with the authorities. The country recorded over one thousand cases such offences that year. This category of crime came under the purview of Section 67B of the Indian Penal Code.

In 2022, the state of Maharashtra in India had the highest number of cyber stalking and bullying incidents against women and children to the rest of the country, with nearly ** cases registered with the authorities. Kerala followed with ** cases. Overall, the country recorded approximately *** cases of such offences that same year. This category of crime came under the purview of Section 354D of the Indian Penal Code.

In 2023, the child abuse rate for children of Hispanic origin was at 6.7, indicating 6.7 out of every 1,000 Hispanic children in the United States suffered from some sort of abuse. This rate was highest among American Indian or Alaska Native children, with 13.8 children out of every 1,000 experiencing some form of abuse. Child abuse in the U.S. The child abuse rate in the United States is highest among American Indian or Alaska Native victims, followed by African-American victims. It is most common among children between two to five years of age. While child abuse cases are fairly evenly distributed between girls and boys, more boys than girls are victims of abuse resulting in death. The most common type of maltreatment is neglect, followed by physical abuse. Risk factors Child abuse is often reported by teachers, law enforcement officers, or social service providers. In the large majority of cases, the perpetrators of abuse were a parent of the victim. Risk factors, such as teen pregnancy, violent crime, and poverty that are associated with abuse and neglect have been found to be quite high in the United States in comparison to other countries.

In 2024, the number of victims of rape in the Philippines reached about *****, reflecting a significant decrease from the peak value in 2022. The volume of rape cases in the country fluctuated since 2014.