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Country

United States

Scores
67.2/100
Overall
51.3/100
Governance and accountability
70.0/100
Prevention
65.0/100
Healing
73.5/100
Justice

Americas & the Caribbean

3rd

Overall

3rd

Governance and accountability

2nd

Prevention

9th

Healing

3rd

Justice

Shared rank — one or more countries have the same score.

Ending Violence Against Children pledging process

6th

Overall

12th

Governance and accountability

4th

Prevention

15th

Healing

5th

Justice

Shared rank — one or more countries have the same score.

G20

7th

Overall

11th

Governance and accountability

4th

Prevention

10th

Healing

8th

Justice

Shared rank — one or more countries have the same score.

G7

6th

Overall

7th

Governance and accountability

2nd

Prevention

4th

Healing

6th

Justice

Shared rank — one or more countries have the same score.

Background indicators
GDP per capita
85809.9
Gini coefficient
41.8
Rule of Law Index
0.7
Gender Inequality Index (GII)
0.17
Women in parliament
29.0
Gender gap in educational attainment
1.0
LGBTQ Equality Index
68.0
Birth registration
100.0
Internet penetration rate
93.14
Online child sexual abuse
23.0
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3rd
within Americas and Caribbean
out of 16 countries
8th
in its high income classification
out of 14 countries
74.1
million children in the United States
represents 91% of the region's total population under the age of 18

Many countries - including the United States - still lack a minimum age of marriage, and in others, the minimum age is 16 years or younger.

 

This country’s score places it in the top third of those assessed in the Index

This high-ranking indicates ongoing and significant effort in establishing laws, policies, services, and accountability mechanisms to prevent and respond to sexual violence against children and adolescents. This country proves that strong systems and political commitment can drive meaningful impact.

Ongoing commitments in prevention, survivor-centered healing, and justice reform will be critical to sustain progress and ensure that protections reach every child.

The scoring provides a roadmap for further action. 

The Index evaluates countries against 23 indicators covering the foundational laws, policies, programs, and services governments should have in place to end sexual violence against children and adolescents. 

By using these indicators as a step-by-step guide, countries can make meaningful progress toward eliminating sexual violence in their country and improving their ranking in the next Index cycle.

Advocacy in action

Bob Shilling is a survivor advocate and one of the co-founders of the Brave Movement. 

He spent a four-decade career in US law enforcement, which included leading the Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Unit at the Seattle Police Department and concluding with heading the Crimes Against Children Unit of Interpol.

Over the course of three years, he and his colleagues identified and helped rescue 5,420 children who were victims of sexual assault in different parts of the world.

 

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Third Richest Nation

www.bravemovement.org/campaigns/third-richest-nation

A world without childhood violence would be $7 trillion richer. This nation isn’t real. Its wealth could be. Brave Movement's survivor-led advocacy campaign at the G20 in 2025 pressured decision makers to invest in prevention, healing and justice to create stronger, happier nations.

#BeBrave G7 Scorecard 2025

www.bravemovement.org/g7

By evaluating each G7 nation’s progress on vital policy measures we're drawing global attention to the global, silent pandemic of sexual violence against children. This is a crisis that undermines the G7's commitment to building secure, prosperous, and equitable societies. Kids need bold leadership and decisive action now to be safe and thrive.

Break the record

www.togetherforgirls.org/en/press/a-record-breaking-event-now-governments-must-deliver

We broke the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ for the most countries represented at a childhood violence summit! With 120 governments attending, this first ever Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children was the largest organized event to address this issue on a global scale. Most importantly, as a result, we also broke the world’s record of inaction against childhood sexual violence.