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In 2025, as in previous years, the majority of child sexual abuse imagery reported depicted girls. Here we show the breakdown of the number of children by sex, the proportion has remained largely consistent over the last few years.
These figures represent the total number of boys and girls identified across all images, rather than the number of victims per image.
We see a significantly higher proportion of girls in the CSAM we assess. Girls appear in almost all of the ‘self-generated’ imagery we take action on, with younger boys generally more likely to appear in commercially produced and distributed CSAM, and older teen boys increasingly reporting imagery to us directly via Report Remove. We have observed that teenage boys seem to be particularly targeted for sexually motivated extortion.