| Field Listing :: Child labor - children ages 5-14 |
| This entry gives the percent of children aged 5-14 (or the age range specified) engaged in child labor. We define “child labor” as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential, and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development. It refers to work that is mentally, physically, socially, or morally dangerous and harmful to children. Such labor may deprive them of the opportunity to attend school, oblige them to leave school prematurely, or require them to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work. In its most extreme forms, child labor involves children being enslaved, separated from their families, exposed to serious hazards and illnesses, and/or left to fend for themselves on the streets of large cities – often a very early age. | |
Country |
Child labor - children ages 5-14 |
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| Afghanistan |
total number: 3,252,243
percentage: 25 % note: data on child labor in Afghanistan is uncertain and may be higher than the estimated 25% of children ages 5-14 derived from 2011 survey results; UNICEF estimated that 30% of children ages 5-14 in 2011 were engaged in child labor (2008 est.) |
| Albania |
total number: 72,818
percentage: 12 % (2005 est.) |
| Algeria |
total number: 304,358
percentage: 5 % (2006 est.) |
| Angola |
total number: 832,895
percentage: 24 % (2001 est.) |
| Argentina |
total number: 435,252
percentage: 7 % note: data represents children ages 5-13 (2003 est.) |
| Armenia |
total number: 19,596
percentage: 4 % note: data represents children ages 7-17 (2007 est.) |
| Azerbaijan |
total number: 106,626
percentage: 7 % (2005 est.) |
| Bahrain |
total number: 5,530
percentage: 5 % (2000 est.) |
| Bangladesh |
total number: 4,485,497
percentage: 13 % (2006 est.) |
| Belarus |
total number: 54,218
percentage: 5 % (2005 est.) |
| Belize |
total number: 27,751
percentage: 40 % (2001 est.) |
| Benin |
total number: 1,020,981
percentage: 46 % (2006 est.) |
| Bhutan |
total number: 25,801
percentage: 18 % (2010 est.) |
| Bolivia |
total number: 553,323
percentage: 26 % note: data represents children ages 5-13 (2008 est.) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
total number: 24,722
percentage: 5 % (2006 est.) |
| Botswana |
total number: 45,036
percentage: 9 % note: data represents children ages 7-17 (2006 est.) |
| Brazil |
total number: 959,942
percentage: 3 % note: data represents children ages 5-13 (2009 est.) |
| Burkina Faso |
total number: 1,521,006
percentage: 38 % (2006 est.) |
| Burundi |
total number: 433,187
percentage: 19 % (2005 est.) |
| Cabo Verde |
total number: 1,948
percentage: 3 % note: data represents children ages 10-14 (2001 est.) |
| Cambodia |
total number: 1,345,269
percentage: 39 % (2001 est.) |
| Cameroon |
total number: 1,396,281
percentage: 31 % (2006 est.) |
| Central African Republic |
total number: 532,518
percentage: 47 % (2006 est.) |
| Chad |
total number: 1,475,960
percentage: 48 % (2010 est.) |
| Chile |
total number: 82,882
percentage: 3 % (2003 est.) |
| Colombia |
total number: 988,362
percentage: 9 % note: data represents children ages 5-17 (2009 est.) |
| Comoros |
total number: 39,550
percentage: 27 % (2000 est.) |
| Congo, Democratic Republic of the |
total number: 8,284,395
percentage: 42 % (2010 est.) |
| Congo, Republic of the |
total number: 252,171
percentage: 25 % (2005 est.) |
| Costa Rica |
total number: 39,082
percentage: 5 % (2002 est.) |
| Cote d'Ivoire |
total number: 1,796,802
percentage: 35 % (2006 est.) |
| Djibouti |
total number: 13,176
percentage: 8 % (2006 est.) |
| Dominican Republic |
total number: 180,423
percentage: 10 % (2000 est.) |
| Ecuador |
total number: 227,599
percentage: 8 % (2008 est.) |
| Egypt |
total number: 1,066,526
percentage: 7 % (2005 est.) |
| El Salvador |
total number: 179,303
percentage: 4 % note: data represents children ages 5-17 (2007 est.) |
| Equatorial Guinea |
total number: 35,382
percentage: 28 % (2000 est.) |
| Ethiopia |
total number: 10,693,164
percentage: 53 % (2005 est.) |
| Gambia, The |
total number: 103,389
percentage: 25 % (2006 est.) |
| Georgia |
total number: 113,106
percentage: 18 % (2005 est.) |
| Ghana |
total number: 1,806,750
percentage: 34 % (2006 est.) |
| Guatemala |
total number: 929,852
percentage: 21 % note: data represents children ages 5-17 (2006 est.) |
| Guinea |
total number: 571,774
percentage: 25 % (2003 est.) |
| Guinea-Bissau |
total number: 226,316
percentage: 57 % (2010 est.) |
| Guyana |
total number: 30,255
percentage: 16 % (2006 est.) |
| Haiti |
total number: 2,587,205
percentage: 21 % (2006 est.) |
| Honduras |
total number: 280,809
percentage: 16 % (2002 est.) |
| India |
total number: 26,965,074
percentage: 12 % (2006 est.) |
| Indonesia |
total number: 4,026,285
percentage: 7 % note: data represents children ages 5-17 (2009 est.) |
| Iraq |
total number: 715,737
percentage: 11 % (2006 est.) |
| Jamaica |
total number: 38,516
percentage: 6 % (2005 est.) |
| Kazakhstan |
total number: 59,254
percentage: 2 % (2006 est.) |
| Kenya |
total number: 2,146,058
percentage: 26 % (2000 est.) |
| Kyrgyzstan |
total number: 563,920
percentage: 40.3 % note: data represents children ages 5-17 (2007 est.) |
| Laos |
total number: 175,138
percentage: 11 % (2006 est.) |
| Lebanon |
total number: 54,387
percentage: 7 % (2000 est.) |
| Lesotho |
total number: 103,020
percentage: 23 % (2000 est.) |
| Liberia |
total number: 177,160
percentage: 21 % (2007 est.) |
| Macedonia |
total number: 16,782
percentage: 6 % (2005 est.) |
| Madagascar |
total number: 1,827,423
percentage: 28 % note: data represents children ages 5-17 (2007 est.) |
| Malawi |
total number: 993,318
percentage: 26 % (2006 est.) |
| Mali |
total number: 1,485,027
percentage: 36 % (2010 est.) |
| Mauritania |
total number: 127,251
percentage: 16 % (2007 est.) |
| Mexico |
total number: 1,105,617
percentage: 5 % (2009 est.) |
| Moldova |
total number: 72,364
percentage: 16 % (2009 est.) |
| Mongolia |
total number: 106,203
percentage: 18 % (2005 est.) |
| Montenegro |
total number: 8,520
percentage: 10 % (2005 est.) |
| Morocco |
total number: 500,960
percentage: 8 % (2007 est.) |
| Mozambique |
total number: 1,369,080
percentage: 22 % (2008 est.) |
| Nepal |
total number: 2,467,549
percentage: 34 % (2008 est.) |
| Nicaragua |
total number: 223,992
percentage: 14 % note: data represents children ages 5-17 (2005 est.) |
| Niger |
total number: 1,557,913
percentage: 43 % (2006 est.) |
| Nigeria |
total number: 11,396,823
percentage: 29 % (2007 est.) |
| Panama |
total number: 59,294
percentage: 7 % note: data represents children ages 5-17 (2010 est.) |
| Paraguay |
total number: 205,297
percentage: 15 % (2004 est.) |
| Peru |
total number: 2,545,855
percentage: 34 % note: data represents children ages 5-17 (2007 est.) |
| Portugal |
total number: 36,569
percentage: 3 % note: data represents children ages 6-14 (2001 est.) |
| Romania |
total number: 26,658
percentage: 1 % (2000 est.) |
| Rwanda |
total number: 783,113
percentage: 35 % (2000 est.) |
| Sao Tome and Principe |
total number: 3,235
percentage: 8 % (2006 est.) |
| Senegal |
total number: 657,216
percentage: 22 % (2005 est.) |
| Serbia |
total number: 36,141
percentage: 4 % (2005 est.) |
| Sierra Leone |
total number: 573,287
percentage: 48 % (2005 est.) |
| Somalia |
total number: 1,148,265
percentage: 49 % (2006 est.) |
| Suriname |
total number: 6,094
percentage: 6 % (2006 est.) |
| Swaziland |
total number: 28,043
percentage: 9 % (2000 est.) |
| Syria |
total number: 192,915
percentage: 4 % (2006 est.) |
| Tajikistan |
total number: 164,432
percentage: 10 % (2005 est.) |
| Tanzania |
total number: 2,815,085
percentage: 21 % note: data represents children ages 5-17 and does not in (2006 est.) |
| Thailand |
total number: 818,399
percentage: 8 % (2006 est.) |
| Timor-Leste |
total number: 10,510
percentage: 4 % (2002 est.) |
| Togo |
total number: 774,801
percentage: 47 % (2010 est.) |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
total number: 1,201
percentage: 1 % (2006 est.) |
| Turkey |
total number: 321,866
percentage: 3 % note: data represents children ages 6-14 (2006 est.) |
| Uganda |
total number: 117,266
percentage: 25 % note: data represents children ages 5-17 working in the (2010 est.) |
| Ukraine |
total number: 356,213
percentage: 7 % (2005 est.) |
| Uruguay |
total number: 51,879
percentage: 7 % (2006 est.) |
| Venezuela |
total number: 404,092
percentage: 8 % (2000 est.) |
| Vietnam |
total number: 2,545,616
percentage: 16 % (2006 est.) |
| Yemen |
total number: 1,334,288
percentage: 23 % (2006 est.) |
| Zambia |
total number: 1,000,850
percentage: 41 % note: data represents children ages 7-14 (2005 est.) |