The 2026TIP Report
More victims of trafficking were identified this year than in any year the report tracks. Here is what it means for the mission you are part of.
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What the report found
Worldwide figures for 2025, from the 2026 report
Victims identified worldwide. The most in the seven years the report tracks.
Full Circle
One theme from this year’s report
Each year the TIP Report picks a few special topics. This year one is called “Full Circle: How Protecting Victims Leads to the Prosecution of Traffickers.” It names a main reason trafficking cases fail in court:
“Failures in victim protection and support are a primary reason for unsuccessful prosecutions.”
And the other side of it:
“Survivors are better able to engage in legal processes when their medical, psychological, and economic needs are met.”
A study in four Southeast Asian countries linked care after trafficking with survivors rebuilding their lives and taking part in legal cases.
Freedom is not finished until a survivor is healed and the case is carried through court. Here is how AIM lives that out.
Care
Care is what makes justice possible.
AIM’s model holds rescue, restoration and reintegration together. Jesus never treated people as problems to solve, so our care does not stop at rescue. A survivor who is safe and cared for is a survivor who can stand in court. Your partnership keeps that care in place.
Court
Carrying cases to court.
A conviction tells a survivor that what was done was wrong. It also stops a trafficker before the next child is harmed. AIM SWAT works alongside local anti-trafficking police on rescue operations, and AIM’s legal team walks with survivors through the court process. When you stand with this work, you stand with survivors all the way to the courtroom.
AIM SWAT operates alongside local police and has no independent authority to make arrests.
Contextualization
One model, shaped to each place.
AIM serves in Southeast Asia and Central America. God calls us to bring a model that works to each place we serve, and He is already at work there before we arrive. What it looks like changes from place to place, because it is built around the real needs of each community. And as those needs change, the work changes with them. Your partnership carries this model wherever it is needed.
Year by year
We update this page every October
victims identified
7,975 convicted
victims identified
7,145 convicted
Each report counts the year before it. Earlier figures as corrected in the 2026 report.
How the TIP Report works
Each October the U.S. Department of State publishes the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, the U.S. government’s yearly review of how the world is responding to human trafficking. The report was created by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. It sorts the world’s responses into four tiers, measured against the Act’s minimum standards.
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Together for Freedom
When a life is set free, the glory belongs to God. He is the one who rescues, heals and restores, and He invites each of us into that work. Every survivor who walks into freedom, every day of restoration care and every case carried through court is His work, done through people who said yes. We invite you to say yes with us.