Number of victims of human trafficking per 100,000 population

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Headline data

16.2.2. Number of victims of human trafficking per 100,000 population
Year Value
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014 9.3
2015 11.0
2016 8.3
2017 9.1
2018 13.6
2019 12.9
2020 5.3
2021 13.9
2022 6.1
2023 7.0
2024 5.0
2025 4.5

Source: General Police Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

Geographical Area: The Republic of Moldova, without the left side of the river Nistru and the municipality of Bender.

Unit of Measurement: Number

Footnote:

This table provides metadata for the actual indicator available from Moldovan statistics closest to the corresponding global SDG indicator. Please note that even when the global SDG indicator is fully available, this table should be consulted for information on national methodology and other Moldovan-specific metadata information.

Indicator

Indicator 16.2.2: Number of victims of human trafficking per 100,000 population
Definition and concepts
<p>Trafficking in human beings (trafficking in adults or trafficking in children, Articles 165 and 206 of the Criminal Code) – the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of an adult person, with or without his/her consent, for the purpose of commercial or non-commercial sexual exploitation, labor or forced services, begging, appropriation of aid, allowances or social benefits, illegal use in medical or scientific testing or experiments, exploitation in slavery or slavery-like conditions, use in armed conflicts or criminal activities, organ, tissue and/or human cell removal, as well as the use of a woman as a surrogate mother or for reproductive purposes, committed by means of: applying violence not endangering life or health or threatening such violence, abduction, concealment, degradation or destruction of documents, keeping in servitude for the purpose of debt repayment, threat of disclosing confidential information to the victim’s family or to other natural or legal persons, fraud, abuse of a position of vulnerability or abuse of power, giving or receiving payments or benefits to obtain the consent of a person having control over another person.</p> <p>Victim of trafficking in human beings – a natural person established as having been subjected to the trafficking actions mentioned above. (Article 2, paragraphs 1 and 11 of Law No. 241 of 20.10.2005 on the prevention and combating of trafficking in human beings).</p>
Unit of measure

Number
Method of computation

Total number of identified victims of human trafficking out of total population*100000
Comparability with global indicator

The numerator of the global indicator consists of two parts: identified and unidentified victims of human trafficking. At the national level, there are no data on unidentified victims.
Periodicity

Annual
Data last updated Jul 22, 2026
Metadata last updated Jul 15, 2026

This table provides information on metadata for SDG indicators as defined by the UN Statistical Commission. Complete global metadata is provided by the UN Statistics Division.

Indicator

Indicator 16.2.2: Number of victims of human trafficking per 100,000 population, by sex, age and form of exploitation
Target

Target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children
UN designated tier

1
Link to global metadata

https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-16-02-02.pdf
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United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Metadata (PDF)
International organisations(s) responsible for global monitoring

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Related indicators

Indicator 5.2.1: Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age

Indicator 5.2.2: Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence
Metadata update

2024-07-29

Source 1

Data sources
<p>1. Administrative data, General Police Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs</p> <p>2. Demographic data on the number of the usually resident population, National Bureau of Statistics</p>
Data producers

General Police Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
Data providers
<p>1. General Police Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs</p> <p>2. National Bureau of Statistics</p>
Institutional mandate
<p>1. Ministry of Internal Affairs</p> <p>2. Ministry of Labour and Social Protection</p>
Contact details

Veronica Kutișevski, Senior Investigation Officer of Section No. 1, Center for Combating Trafficking in Persons, National Investigation Inspectorate of the General Police Inspectorate (IGP), e-mail: cctp_ini@igp.gov.md, tel.: +373 69663772.
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