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Figure 7 is a bar chart that shows a share of child victims of THB between 2007 and 2010, detected by region. In Africa and the Middle East, children constituted 68 per cent of the overall number of victims, whilst adults constituted 32 per cent. In South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific, children constituted 39 per cent of the overall number of victims, whilst adults constituted 61 per cent. Globally, children constituted 27 per cent of the overall number of victims, whilst adults constituted 73 per cent. In the Americas, children constituted 27 per cent of the overall number of victims, whilst adults constituted 73 per cent. In Europe and Central Asia, children constituted 16 per cent of the overall number of victims, whilst adults constituted 84 per cent.