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An estimated 558,899 children (unique incidents) were victims of abuse and neglect in 2022, the most recent year for which there is national data. That’s 8 children out of every thousand. CACs serve more than 380,000 kids each year, helping them to recover.
At least one in seven children experienced child abuse or neglect in the past year in the United States. 3 This is likely an underestimate because many cases are unreported. In 2021, 1,820 children died of abuse and neglect in the United States. 4
New federal child abuse and neglect data shows an increase in the number of victims who suffered maltreatment for the first time since 2015. As in past years, rates of abuse and neglect are highest among infants and young children.
For FFY 2021, 51 states reported 588,229 victims of child abuse and neglect. This equates to a national rate of 8.1 victims per 1,000 children in the population.
This report presents national data about child abuse and neglect known to child protective services agencies in the United States during federal fiscal year 2021.
The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) is a U.S. data archive which preserves and distributes quantitative child abuse data sets to researchers for analysis with statistics software.
This infographic presents key data from Child Maltreatment 2021, the 32nd edition of the annual reports on child abuse and neglect produced by the Children's Bureau within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
About 1,750 children died from abuse or neglect in 2020, a rate of about 2 per 100,000 children. The rate per 100,000 for child deaths from abuse or neglect has stayed steady since 2005. Fatalities decreased 5% compared with 2019. Almost half of the victims were younger than 1 year old.
In 2022, there were 558,899 reported cases of child abuse in the U.S., with the most common form of maltreatment being neglect, followed by physical abuse and sexual abuse. The demographics of...
There were 4,276,000 referrals alleging maltreatment that include 7,530,000 children (based on national estimates). The victimization rates per 1,000 children decreased over the past 5 years, from 9.4 in 2018 to 7.7 in 2022.