The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said authorities were failing to collect data which would help identify paedophiles.
It found signs of abuse in six areas but police were often unable to provide evidence on the extent of the problem.
There were “extensive failures” in how child exploitation is tackled.
In its 18th report, IICSA examined abuse in St Helens, Tower Hamlets in London, Swansea, Durham, Bristol and Warwickshire.
The inquiry criticised authorities for failing to collect data about the ethnicity of either abusers or their victims.
The inquiry found children as young as 10 were being labelled as only “at risk”, despite clear evidence they were contracting sexually-transmitted diseases, going missing with adults and turning up late from “house parties”.
None of the areas examined by IICSA kept data on the ethnicity of all victims and perpetrators.
The report said: “This makes it impossible to know whether any particular ethnic group is over-represented as perpetrators of child sexual exploitation by networks.”
This is despite the Home Office regularly publishing general data about the ethnicity of criminals and victims.
One victim said: “I was a child. I always pictured rape as being pinned down, are being tied up.
“Because I got drunk and I woke up with no underwear on I didn’t actually think I’d been raped. I always kind of blamed myself in that situation.”
“The school knew that I was pregnant at 14 and used to see me get picked up and dropped off by Asian males.
“The hospital knew because they carried out an abortion without my parent’s consent.”
“The police knew because I was arrested every other week.
“All the authorities knew, but they never did anything.”
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