Profits and poverty: The economics of forced labour published in March 2024 by the International Labour Organisation reveals the lucrative nature of trafficking for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation: “Although forced commercial sexual exploitation accounts for only 27 per cent of all people in privately imposed forced labour, it accounts for 73 per cent of total illegal profits from forced labour. […] These numbers are explained by the huge difference in profit per victim between forced commercial sexual exploitation and forced labour exploitation – US$27,252 65 for the former against US$3,687 for the latter.” 44.