Knowledge resource
NCMEC CyberTipline Report 2025
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) · 2025
About This Resource
The 2025 NCMEC CyberTipline Report provides data and analysis on reports of suspected child sexual exploitation, including online enticement, sextortion, child sex trafficking, generative AI-related exploitation and content-removal efforts. The data reflects reports submitted to NCMEC’s CyberTipline; it is not a complete measure of all child online exploitation incidents worldwide.
What You’ll Find
- Publisher-authored guidance, evidence or practical material
- Context for safer, more responsible digital use
- Links to the original official source
Who Is It For?
Parents & caregivers · Educators · Professionals · Researchers · Child safety organizations
Key Topics
Why It Matters
CyberTipline data offers important insight into emerging patterns of online child sexual exploitation and helps illustrate how risks such as sextortion, online enticement and generative AI are evolving.
Additional Reported Data
- 61.8 million images, videos and other files were included in 2025 electronic-service-provider reports.
- More than 80,000 online enticement reports concerned sextortion.
- More than 158,000 images and videos had been categorized as GAI CSAM since tracking began in 2023.
- NCMEC reported law-enforcement relationships for CyberTipline referrals in 170 countries and territories.
- More than 172,000 removal notices were issued in 2025; the average takedown time for images or videos was 2.6 days.
- Take It Down removal requests included more than 273,000 images and videos, and the service was available in 36 languages by the end of 2025.
Publisher
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)
Language: English
Last reviewed: September 2026
DeraSafe presents this resource for educational and knowledge-sharing purposes. Content rights remain with the original publisher. External links lead to official sources whenever available.
Statistics presented by DeraSafe summarize data published by NCMEC. They reflect reports received by the CyberTipline and should not be interpreted as the total number of child exploitation incidents globally.
Reporting trends can be affected by legal, platform and reporting-policy changes. The 2025 increase in online enticement and child sex trafficking reporting was affected in part by expanded reporting requirements under the U.S. REPORT Act.