Child Maltreatment 2021 is the latest edition of the annual Child Maltreatment report series. States provide the data for this report via the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS). NCANDS was established as a voluntary, national data collection and analysis program to make available state child abuse and neglect information.
Data have been collected every year since 1991 and are collected from child welfare agencies in the 50 states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia. For FFY 2021, 51 states submitted both a Child File and an Agency File. One state was not able to report FFY 2021 data in time for this report.
Key findings in this report include:
■ During Federal fiscal year (FFY) 2021, a nationally estimated 3,016,000 children received either an investigation response or alternative response at a rate of 40.7 children per 1,000 in the population.
■ 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. Estimating for missing data, there are 600,000 victims of maltreatment for FFY 2021.
■ FFY 2021 data show three-quarters (76.0%) of victims are neglected, 16.0 percent are physically abused, 10.1 percent are sexually abused, and 0.2 percent are sex trafficked.
■ A nationally estimated 1,820 children died from abuse and neglect at a rate of 2.46 per 100,000 children in the population.
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