7.4
2023 (latest)
CHILD MALTREATMENT VICTIMS
victims per 1,000 children · 2005–2023 · neither direction is "better" · ACF Children's Bureau, Child Maltreatment / NCANDS
10.9
2005
11.0
high · 2006
7.4
low · 2023
−32%
since 2005
┊ dashed lines mark 2008 Global financial crisis · 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. Federal fiscal years. Unique-count child victims per 1,000 children in reporting states. CM2009 Table 3-7 (2005–09), CM2013 Table 3-3 (2009–13), CM2017 Table 3-4 (2013–17), CM2019 Table 3-4 (2015–19), CM2023 Table 3-3 (2019–23). Newest edition wins each overlap. Revisions are material: 2013 rate 9.1 in CM2013 becomes 8.8 in CM2017; 2019 rate 8.9 in CM2019 becomes 9.2 in CM2023. Published reports describe resubmissions, changing reporting coverage and state definitions; this is administrative surveillance, not a constant-definition prevalence estimate. Breaks: none known that is dated: reporting-state coverage, state statutes, resubmissions and retrospective revisions vary; unique-count rates throughout.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://acf.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cb/cm2023.pdf
- https://acf.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cb/cm2009.pdf
- https://acf.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cb/cm2013.pdf
- https://acf.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cb/cm2017.pdf
- https://acf.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cb/cm2019.pdf
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Family-And-Society
Data
| Year | Child maltreatment victims | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7.4 | −3% |
| 2022 | 7.6 | −6% |
| 2021 | 8.1 | −2% |
| 2020 | 8.3 | −10% |
| 2019 | 9.2 | +0% |
| 2018 | 9.2 | +1% |
| 2017 | 9.1 | +0% |
| 2016 | 9.1 | −1% |
| 2015 | 9.2 | +1% |
| 2014 | 9.1 | +3% |
| 2013 | 8.8 | −3% |
| 2012 | 9.1 | −1% |
| 2011 | 9.2 | −1% |
| 2010 | 9.3 | +0% |
| 2009 | 9.3 | −2% |
| 2008 | 9.5 | −1% |
| 2007 | 9.6 | −13% |
| 2006 | 11.0 | +1% |
| 2005 | 10.9 | — |
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