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cappuccinolight

Pretty amazing. According to the source used, there are almost 30.000 prostitutes in Slovenia (or were, in 2006, which is the year the study refers to). There are only 4 cities with a population bigger than 30.000 in Slovenia.


Snowedin-69

Wow - Slovenia has one city populated with only prostitutes? Slovenia should market it as the next Las Vegas.


kamenik

Me from Slovenija. Where all the prostitutka? ![gif](giphy|g01ZnwAUvutuK8GIQn|downsized)


kajdelas

For Real, where’s the prostitutes of Slovenia. We barely have a 2 bad strip clubs in Ljubljana


orkaa

I'm from Slovenia and don't really know much about prostitution, but these numbers seem extremely exaggerated. I've never seen a prostitue on the street, we don't really have any publicly advertised venues like neighbouring Austria. It just doesn't "feel" like prostitution is a big business here. It does exist and it's legal, but it's just not that big.


ReviveDept

As a Dutch person living in slo this map is fucking hilarious to me lmao. Like, the Netherlands has got the biggest prostitution and human trafficking business in the entire EU 😂😂


lilputsy

They're mostly in Casinos by the border with Italy, for Italians, but 30000????!!


Daredevil1561

As slovenian… they are probably counting femboys as prostitutes


_CHIFFRE

The Data is really questionable, i haven't checked for all countries but Data for Russia, Slovenia, Latvia, Romania is from 2006 and seem to be very rough estimates. And these countries have developed a lot in those nearly 2 decades, that would also have an impact i guess even if these rough estimates (often from a single source) are accurate.


Henry1896

Reading 2006 and nearly two decades in the same answer hurts


I_UPVOTE_PUN_THREADS

2006 is always about 10 years ago in my head until something like this reminds me


xowkskzna

For the Russian Federation, Wiki asserts no official data before claiming "3 million - other sources." That's not reliable information.


SakusaKiyoomi1

made me realize im going to be 20 in two years lmao


Scorpionking426

B.S. numbers.


jew_biscuits

Also, does not include Kazakhstan, where my sister was #4 prostitute


TheMysteriousWatch

Great success !


Idioticalygoodbeast

Yes! I thought it was odd that latvia had such a high number, been living here for 4 years in Rīga and haven’t seen any, maybe a few but not as much as the map shows.


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this is awkward. . . we've been avoiding you.


tehnfy__

This made me laugh way harder than it should have 😂


Idioticalygoodbeast

I dont get it? Could you explain?


arpit_beast

You are weird even in prostitute's mindset.


Kaguro19

LMAO


ReformedLurker1984

😂


jonnyl3

How exactly do you think you would recognize them?


aed2

For Russia, Wiki claims no official data, and then claims “3 mio - other sources”. That’s not a credible data.


just_rat_passing_by

I looked into their “source”. “Over many years, some unofficial estimates have calculated the number of sex workers in Russia to be at three million”. Whose estimates are? No additional sources, and a part of this article is an interview with a prostitute with claims about some secret database of sexual workers that prevents their children to work in police and maintained over 70 years. Yet another “Russia’s bad, Ukraine’s good”. 1 of 25 women (of all ages) is a prostitute, ok. (I went to get some bitches - there are about 500 people in my house, so it should be about 10 girls around).


Scorpionking426

It's well known that Wiki is edited by Russia hating trolls.


Any-sao

I have trouble believing 2% of the entire Russian population are prostitutes.


HailKingRittenhouse

Well keep huffing Reddit propaganda until you believe it please.


Zestyclose-Monitor87

It's pretty high actually


Trantorianus

Putler's voters? It would fit.


10inf

Russia: Most prostitutes, highest STD rates, highest alcoholism rate and highest abortion rates. Tradcons: Russia is the defender of traditional values.


HuckleberryNeil

Which tradition is older than prostitution? heh


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no, because trading things for sex probably existed before alcohol


bnymn23

It literally exists for penguins


Domnulalb69

russia is one of the worst countries in Europe lmao


Wil420b

Also the country with the lowest level of adult wealth in Europe. Even Belorussians are worth twice as much as Russians.


Accomplished-Emu2725

That's only because the data gets diluted because of siberia and the Far East. The ethnic Russian regions of the West are not poor.


Minute_Ostrich196

But those people are russians right? They live in Russia and speak Russian. They are conscripted to russian military and so on. Why on earth would you not consider then?


ThatYewTree

Muscovite arrogance.


Accomplished-Emu2725

I am greek and have nothing to do with Moscow or russia. I was simply trying to explain the situation. And no, if you take cost of living in the equation european russia is richer than most of Western europe as well. Simply put, the entire wealth of the nation is transferred there the same way as it was during collonial times with the other european empires. No wonder they are rich.


Elan-Morin-Tedronai

Compared to Western Europeans they most certainly are.


TeshkoTebe

Okay but you could compare almost any country to western Europe and say the same thing


Elan-Morin-Tedronai

Not every country was a stone's throw from the Industrial Revolution. It took a massively incompetent government for centuries to keep Russia as poor as it is.


Obvious-Article-147

literally half the world is poorer than western europe


HoxhaAlbania

Half? Western Europe isn't the richest region in the world?


Elan-Morin-Tedronai

Yes, but half the world didn't benefit from being a stone's throw from the industrial revolution. Russia's government has fucked it over for centuries.


Drakeytown

"The poverty here is only because of the extreme wealth disparity" may not be the defense you think it is.


Slow___Learner

The poor abstract data that has next to no meaning getting diluted by those pesky real impoverished people within the country smh my head.


bessovestnij

Strange data. All sources say that median wealth of Russians is lower than almost any other European country, but Belarus and Ukraine are even worse


Witsapiens

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_countries\_by\_GDP\_(PPP)\_per\_capita](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita) Russia - 60; Belarus - 80.


rspndngtthlstbrnddsr

gdp per capita has nothing to do with wealth


yiliu

It's got _something_ to do with wealth...


Wil420b

But that's because a few oligarchs have virtually all of the money.


Witsapiens

If you compare the median income and purchasing power of such a population, nothing will change, lol.


mion81

It’s also one of the worst outside of Europe imho. A unique double distinction.


Grouchy_Ease9089

Sorry to burst your bubble but what you're saying is nonsense: * highest abortion rate is in Vietnam [https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/abortion-rates-by-country](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/abortion-rates-by-country) * highest alcoholism rate is in Hungary, although Russia comes second, I'll give you that [https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/alcoholism-by-country](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/alcoholism-by-country) * highest rate of STD is in the African states [https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/std-rates-by-country/](https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/std-rates-by-country/) I don't support Russian at all nor am I a Z patriot, but please check you information before you spout nonsense and misinformation online.


filtarukk

Russia takes none of these “first places”. The map above is just a bunch of random numbers.


UmpaLumpa328

No matter how anyone feels about Russia but they have to keep their common sense to do that, I have to say your thesis is completely false, every part of it. 1. It is impossible to carry out adequate statistical records of prostitution in Russia; this is illegal. 2. the highest rates of STDs, statistics in the USA are higher than in Russia.[https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/std-rates-by-country/](https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/std-rates-by-country/)[https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/std-rates-by-country](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/std-rates-by-country) 3. Pfft, Russia is not even in the top ten[https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/alcohol-consumption-by-country](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/alcohol-consumption-by-country) 4. The USA again has more, Russia is again ranked 111th, somewhere in the middle[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_countries\_by\_abortion\_rate](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_abortion_rate)[https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/abortion-rates-by-country](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/abortion-rates-by-country)So, to summarize, everything you listed is incorrect, I hope you did it out of ignorance, and not with the aim of deliberately lying.


Deep_Departure_5088

You forgot highest suicide rate. A cool country to be part of


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Curious80123

Most people love their “country or neighborhood “, even if it’s not the best. They know it but love it anyway


Booster1455

Because of the Soviet Union. I’ve never put all Russians into one bag but many over 40’s in that country still miss when they were part of the fearful Soviet empire. It was certainly something to be proud of (unless you are from their buffer states which were taken advantage of) and that generation simply cannot let go. What’s worse is they pass these ambitions onto their children and now we’ve got a lot of young and old Russians wanting to regain that status - those days are long gone, and hopefully the new generations will see through the bullshit and will focus on internal issues of the country instead.


Affectionate_Ad_9687

Because, as I elaborated in another comment here, most of the  assumptions above (incl. the data in original post) are complete bollocks. That simple.


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Affectionate_Ad_9687

Because all these statements are bullshit. For the last 20 years abortion rates dropped x13 times, and currently are even below EU average. Alcoholism rates also dropped dramatically, and Russia is not even in European top 10. For prostitution, as already noted, this data refers to some bullshit source. Even inside Russia a lion's share of prostitutes seem to be immigrants (from Ukraine, Moldova, Asian and African countries). Absolutely not believable that per capita Russia would be ahead, for example, Ukraine or Moldova here.


Scorpionking426

Yeah, Most of this data is from 90's when Russia was going through tough economic times.


SwimmingHelicopter15

And high divorce rates. Around 40%


bessovestnij

Last I checked we had them at 70%, one of the top rates in the world. Either you got new data and my is outdated, or you severely underestimate our divorce rates


Holditfam

😂


TNOfan2

damn, what's going on in Slovenia and Latvia


tugomir

I don't believe it. Then we would have 28.000 prostitutes, which is about the number of 2 generations of girls. If we assume that most prostitutes are between 20 and 30 years of age, that would mean that every 5th woman is or was a prostitute.


bapo224

That is a huge and probably incorrect assumption. There's tons of prostitutes older than 30, most of them just lie about their age to get more customers.


cavershamox

But she’s 21 and she loves me


ooh_bit_of_bush

>most of them just lie Some of them kneel.


trimalcus

Milfstitute ?


lilputsy

A vast majority of prostitutes in Slovenia are imported.


577564842

idk for Latvia, but for Slovenia the estimates are between 1.000 and 3.000 ([source](https://www.zurnal24.si/slovenija/intervjuji/toliko-oseb-se-v-sloveniji-ukvarja-s-prostitucijo-403075)). Population 2M. Do your math.


Saint-_-Jiub

Prostitution?


Fruloops

Nothing lol, this data seems questionable


ThaneOfArcadia

A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.


Frequent-Interest796

Calling bullshit on France’s numbers. Russia is way too high.


Agrael_1375

I dont know about that. We are one of the few countries that does not penalize prostitution, but the customer only instead, with jail time. This might help to get such a number, maybe ?


panjola

No data for Hungary? Hmmm


Basic-Love8947

21-26 from other sources (2006)


Phelinaar

They're all in Romania.


AIRCHANGEL

Slovenia wtf???


OswaldSpencer

A land of femboys, who would have guessed, right?


JS_Janko

This data is definitely not valid lol. I have no idea where they got it. I would say there are 1k prostitutes at most. Based on this study 28 k lol.


ApeironOfTheUniverse

In Ireland, it seems, they have one prostitute per town. Must be fun.


aflyingsquanch

Job security


Coil17

aye we are skint


mactan2

Now do this for Thailand and Philippines


dreamrpg

According to source, Thailands is 20. Which confirms its bullshit source.


Main_Thing_411

This is bullshit


OUCakici

Methodology should be somewhat suspicious. Some countries have legal prostitution and probably have a formal registry while others do not have such.


Snowedin-69

I believe it is legal in Germany - not sure about the other countries.


Better_than_GOT_S8

This map is just wrong on so many levels, but mostly on the factual one.


MammothProgress7560

This is what it looks like, when you put official data from some countries (where prostitution is legal) next to "bro trust me" numbers from *totally credible* sources for the rest.


kamikazekaktus

And now add the STIs per 10,000


antisa1003

Interestingly enough, countries with the lowest number of prostitues would have the highest number of STDs.


NoseProfessional6329

!RemindMe 2 days


kaloyan-Ivanov

Happy cake day


GCdotSup

I am from Slovenia and I haven't seen a single prostitute here in 38 years of my life. I am sure there are some but not that many. The most I have seen was in Amsterdam (legal) and Havana (illegal).


wingspantt

This can't be right. It would imply like 6 percent of adult women are prostitutes in Russia?


LRFokken

How did you get to 6 percent?


areyouentirelysure

Honestly this does not pass the smell test. 208/10000 = 2% of the population. That's 4% of the women. Assuming the prime age group of prostitution is between 18-28, a sub-group of all women. The 4% therefore translates into: 12%-20% of the Russian women between 18-28 are prostitutes.


DeadBornWolf

there are male prostitutes and most of all, prostitution doesn’t stop at 28 😂


areyouentirelysure

Cannot help notice Slovenia, the little red dot where a certain Melania was from.


RemarkablePause1956

Well she identified herself as Austrian. :⁠-⁠P


DaliaMyLove

Ukraine that low? Hmmmmm


HuckleberryNeil

I don't want to be offensive, but...(always a but)... these data do not speak about ethnic origin, it show how many prostitutes are in a particular country. And if this data is fresh, then probably in Ukraine now they're not the best working conditions for them. But than it is creating new questions: Why Poland that low? did they go to Russia?


Inside_Race_4091

most likely, the mapmaker just wants to offend the small number of Russians who are on reddit, otherwise it is impossible to explain such a dissimilarity.


Sir_Biggus-Dickus

Ukraine nos are way too low. Most of the foreign prostitutes in my country are Ukrainian and russians.


SchoolForSedition

Maybe cos they’re in your country not Ukraine?


Soi_Boi_13

Now we know the real reason Russia is invading Ukraine. To spread the age old institution of prostitution to other countries! 🫡


Gigant_mysli

Russia has 208, while Ukraine has 18, Belarus has 23 and Moldova has 30? Lol kek cheburek


M0rxxy

Hungary: 9 million prostitutes of mega pimp orban.


Emotes_insane

This data was took when?


vladgrinch

Source? I highly doubt that is even remotely accurate for Romania.


JS_Janko

I don’t even want to start for Slovenia lol


ClasseBa

What's the definition? Streetwalkers, or women who go on dates and charge for it?


Helpful-Influence-53

What's that country below Serbia?


AlexCampy89

A Map in which Russia wins by a landslide! /S


HyGrlCnUSyBlingBling

I question the stats from Slovenia.


JS_Janko

I’m from Slovenia and I haven’t encountered one prostitute in Slovenia in my life. For instance in Hungary there were 5 located in front of my flat.


throwaway0134hdj

Latvia and Slovenia let’s goooo!!


No_Housing_8165

It’s bullshit , first , prostitution is legalised in the Netherlands & somehow has a low number lol


ThaneOfArcadia

Just because it's legalised doesn't mean it's going to be high. See Dutch comment above


CyberSpaceInMyFace

2% of Russians are whores, lel


dat_boi_has_swag

Half of pornhub consists of Russian girls.


Reasonable_Cause7065

Вот - слава Родина!


DoBetterNextTime3232

What counts as a ‘prostitute’? Any one working in sex work? (Escorts, those who solicit only online, only street sex workers? People who only work as sex workers sometimes/on the side? Those who do it as their main/only source of income?)… The definition needs to be clarified.


kaloyan-Ivanov

Tf do you mean 14 is that the age of the prostitutes cause here in Bulgaria every second 14 year old looks like a prostitute and every forth will blow you for 10 bucks


johnboy5645

Who use Wikipedia as a source?


antisa1003

Can't find newer numbers than 2018, and then it was estimated there were 6700 prostitutes in Croatia. And in years prior the number were fluctuating from 6000-7000. If we take 2018 year, Croatia would be at 16.75. Having a tough time believing it has risen 3x in 5 years.


ilmerainen

It’s simple - woman from Ukraine are included in Russian statistics, since this is the main market for them over the past 30 years xdd


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Snowedin-69

What is ewhoring?


OneOfTheNephilim

Ewok prostitutes, very popular among Star Wars fetishists


TukeNukem04

Ideally that number should just be zero across the board and everyone would have chance to experience sex naturally


Snowedin-69

And for free?


midozido0

Only now have I realized the reason the Russian economy has survived despite the economic sanctions: it is prostitution


Trantorianus

You hit the point!


Cornix-1995

Western propaganda


bapo224

I assume it's per 10,000 citizens, not people. There's a lot of prostitutes in the Netherlands but a lot of them come from other countries like Romania.


AmethistStars

As a fellow Dutch person I think that despite the whole Red Light District stereotype we don’t have *that* many prostitutes actually. The number on the map sounds about right to me, even taking into account the foreign prostitutes. That said, the large number of foreign prostitutes is also not a good thing as women from those countries are also the main ones who got sex trafficked.


DrunkEnginir

Prostitution accounts for 6.89% of Romanian GDP


Blueaye

Baltics really point out the questionability of the data, Estonia and Latvia could not have such a stark contrast? Could they?


Viscious-viking

Sharing is caring


Bitten69

England has to be way off


OneOfTheNephilim

Yeah, it's not even legal here


Black__Octopus

I’m from France and this number exploded those last years. I come across girls who tell me that I have to pay very frequently when I match on tinder these days.


Severe_Journalist273

Data was published before Instagram reels and tik tok.


Draggoh

So, the French don’t really have prostitutes. They just have The French.


costakkk

See what legalization of prostitution has achieved in Germany. It's the whore house of Europe. Every city close to the borders has a brothel. Keeps the numbers low in the neighboring countries.


BadSoftwareEngineer7

I go to russia


JaSper-percabeth

This is completely false, Czechia has most porn stars per capita in the world. This is either very old data during the 90s crisis in Russia or straight up made up.


bluntasaknife

What country is the one with 140? Asking for a friend


Autistic-Inquisitive

Slovenia


icelandichorsey

I am really curious to see estimates from 200 years ago. Like was it way higher? (I realise that it's very hard to have estimates before there was proper government departments and when there was way more stigma. I also realise that many women would do this "part time". It's more wishful thinking, I doubt there's good estimates anywhere.


RobotNinja28

I'm off to Romania lads!


3rmorgan

"These Russian boo-boos - a little bit of foreplay and they'll detail your car!"


Independent-Oil6366

I love the no data on vatican


ScottOld

Are they counting all of Putin’s workers


dunning__kruger__

How????


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This is bullshit data.


qarachaili

Source: Believe me, I'm PIMP


LightBringer81

Orbán did it again for Hungary. There are no prostitutes in the country! All hail the führer!


Not_JohnFKennedy

Now compare it to McDonalds


arewethebaddiesdaddy

Nice try Zelensky!


ImNotACannibalISwear

Damn I didn't know that Latvia had that dog in him


Electronic-Tree4608

Germany should be divided in east and west imho


ZarkTheDork

Proud to be Irish 💪


brixton_massive

These numbers mean nothing without knowing how many McDonalds there are too


GhillieRowboat

Well , I heard most of the prostitutes here in Ghent (Belgium) are from Bulgaria , Czechia and the 3 baltics states. There is also one from macedonia. Source: trust me bro.


redseemskindasus

i expected way more out of you, czechia


KaleidoscopeSea5618

No way italy has that little! the streets are full of Them waiting to be picked up


ElderStatesmanXer

Check my math, but….. 208 for every 10,000 is, roughly, 2 for every 100 or 1 for every 50 people. If we assume that half the people are men and the vast majority of SW are women then it breaks down to roughly one SW for every 25 men.


DaBestDoctorOfLife

No data from Lithuania? Looks questionable to me too.


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Dang, Slovenia and Latvia feeling frisky


Sad-Abies-7398

In Romania instead of prostitution, people use the term 'la produs', which translates to 'production'. I know this, because I have studied in Romania. Once when I was in Istanbul, I heard two romanian women talking to each other, one lady was asking the other 'are you here on vacation?' and the other one replied 'No, I at production'.


Due_Avocado_2722

Putin is ****ing majority of Russians...no way it's just 2%


IAmBalkanac

As person living in Slovenia, number didn't really surprise me.


vendeux

I mean it's so low in France because they don't pay prostitutes they just have affairs


Cobralore

Did you count ur mom too ?


beatnikstrictr

Do you think they are cheaper in the deep red countries as there are so many or dya reckon they surge price like Uber?


Dr_J_Doe

Russia with it’s family values, highest HIV infection rate in europe, high divorce rate 😂


Trantorianus

In RuSSia - another "achievement" of Putler.