Nearly one in six children are cyberbullied, according to WHO. Around 16% of children aged 11 to 15 said they had been harassed online in 2022.
Physical harassment has remained stable: 11% say they were harassed at school last year. Cyberbullying peaks at age 11 for boys and 13 for girls, the WHO said. The report covers 279,000 children and adolescents from 44 countries and regions across Europe and Central Asia as well as Canada. The highest levels were recorded among boys in Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland and Moldova and lowest by boys in Spain.