{"id":1227392,"name":"Share of children in child labor (total, 5-17)","unit":"%","createdAt":"2026-04-17T13:19:54.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-11-13T11:10:56.000Z","coverage":"","timespan":"2000-2024","datasetId":7798,"shortUnit":"%","columnOrder":0,"shortName":"share_child_labor__sex_total__age_5_17","catalogPath":"grapher/un/2026-04-08/child_labor_report/child_labor#share_child_labor__sex_total__age_5_17","dimensions":{"years":{"values":[{"id":2016},{"id":2020},{"id":2024},{"id":2008},{"id":2012},{"id":2000},{"id":2004}]},"entities":{"values":[{"id":367389,"name":"Africa (ILO)","code":null},{"id":372030,"name":"Americas (ILO)","code":null},{"id":372038,"name":"Arab States (ILO)","code":null},{"id":372033,"name":"Asia and the Pacific (ILO)","code":null},{"id":371807,"name":"Central and Southern Asia (UN SDG)","code":"UNSDG_CSA"},{"id":371806,"name":"Eastern and South-Eastern Asia (UN SDG)","code":"UNSDG_ESEA"},{"id":372039,"name":"Europe and Central Asia (ILO)","code":null},{"id":369228,"name":"Europe and Northern America (UN SDG)","code":"UNSDG_ENA"},{"id":457,"name":"High-income countries","code":"OWID_HIC"},{"id":372015,"name":"Latin America and the Caribbean (ILO)","code":null},{"id":303592,"name":"Latin America and the Caribbean (UN SDG)","code":"UNSDG_LAC"},{"id":461,"name":"Low-income countries","code":"OWID_LIC"},{"id":460,"name":"Lower-middle-income countries","code":"OWID_LMC"},{"id":371808,"name":"Northern Africa and Western Asia (UN SDG)","code":"UNSDG_NAWA"},{"id":303599,"name":"Oceania (UN SDG)","code":"UNSDG_OC"},{"id":372037,"name":"Sub-Saharan Africa (ILO)","code":null},{"id":303605,"name":"Sub-Saharan Africa (UN SDG)","code":"UNSDG_SSA"},{"id":459,"name":"Upper-middle-income countries","code":"OWID_UMC"},{"id":355,"name":"World","code":"OWID_WRL"}]}},"descriptionShort":"Percentage of children aged 5-17 who are either working at an age that is too young for them to be employed, or doing work that — by its nature or conditions — is likely to harm their health, safety, or morals.","descriptionProcessing":"","type":"float","patchConfigIdETL":"019d9b99-14cf-7951-bbe6-927ac6b01de0","dataChecksum":"12109840495691646637","metadataChecksum":"-3457888494852068490","datasetName":"ILO-UNICEF Global Estimates of Child Labour","updatePeriodDays":429,"datasetVersion":"2026-04-08","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{"name":"Share of children in child labor (5-17)","unit":"%","shortUnit":"%","tolerance":0,"numDecimalPlaces":1},"schemaVersion":2,"processingLevel":"minor","presentation":{"attributionShort":"ILO and UNICEF","topicTagsLinks":["Child Labor"]},"descriptionKey":"- Child labor is defined differently depending on the age group: for children aged 5-11, it includes those who did at least one hour of economic activity; for children aged 12-14, it includes those who did at least 14 hours of economic activity; and for children aged 15-17, it includes those who did at least 43 hours of economic activity during the reference week.\n- The definition of child labor also includes children who are doing hazardous work, those who work in hazardous occupations, hazardous industries (mining, quarrying and construction) or working long hours (at least 43 hours per week). The full list of hazardous occupations can be found in the [Methodology of the ILO-UNICEF Global Estimates of Child Labour documentation](https://www.ilo.org/publications/methodology-2024-ilo-unicef-global-estimates-child-labour).\n- Unpaid household chores — such as cooking, cleaning, and childcare performed within a child's own home — are not counted as child labor under this definition.\n- The data does not include the worst forms of child labor that cannot be measured through surveys (trafficking, forced labor, etc.).\n- This data comes from nationally representative household surveys, covering around 60% of the global population of children. To construct a global series with complete coverage, the [International Labour Organization (ILO)](#dod:ilo) and UNICEF use a statistical model to estimate child labor prevalence in countries with missing data. You can read more about how these estimates are produced in the [Methodology of the ILO-UNICEF Global Estimates of Child Labour documentation](https://www.ilo.org/publications/methodology-2024-ilo-unicef-global-estimates-child-labour).","origins":[{"id":21421,"titleSnapshot":"ILO-UNICEF Global Estimates of Child Labour – By Region, Sex and Age","title":"ILO-UNICEF Global Estimates of Child Labour","descriptionSnapshot":"Percentage and number (in thousands) of children aged 5 to 17 years in child labor, disaggregated by ILO regions, SDG regions, and UNICEF regions, broken down by sex (total, boys, girls) and age group (5–11, 12–14, 15–17, 5–17 years). Also includes shares not in school and distribution across economic sectors (agriculture, industry, services). Data are from the statistical annex of the ILO-UNICEF 2024 Global Estimates of Child Labour report.","description":"The ILO-UNICEF 2024 Global Estimates of Child Labour provides an overview of child labor patterns and trends. It also describes the evolving profile of children in child labor, outlines the nature of child labor and where it is concentrated, and explores the impact of child labor on schooling. The report concludes with a discussion of the road ahead.","producer":"International Labour Organization and UNICEF","citationFull":"International Labour Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund, Child Labour: Global estimates 2024, trends and the road forward, ILO and UNICEF, Geneva and New York, 2025. License: CC BY 4.0.","attributionShort":"ILO and UNICEF","versionProducer":"2024","urlMain":"https://www.ilo.org/publications/major-publications/child-labour-global-estimates-2024-trends-and-road-forward","dateAccessed":"2026-04-08","datePublished":"2025-06-11","license":{"url":"https://www.ilo.org/sites/default/files/2025-06/2024%20Global%20Estimates%20of%20Child%20Labour%20Report.pdf","name":"CC BY 4.0"}},{"id":21422,"titleSnapshot":"ILO-UNICEF Global Estimates of Child Labour – Trends 2016–2024","title":"ILO-UNICEF Global Estimates of Child Labour","descriptionSnapshot":"Number (in thousands) and percentage of children aged 5 to 17 years in child labor and in hazardous work for 2016, 2020, and 2024, disaggregated by sex, age group, ILO regions, SDG regions, UNICEF regions, and national income grouping. Data are from the statistical annex of the ILO-UNICEF 2024 Global Estimates of Child Labour report.","description":"The ILO-UNICEF 2024 Global Estimates of Child Labour provides an overview of child labor patterns and trends. It also describes the evolving profile of children in child labor, outlines the nature of child labor and where it is concentrated, and explores the impact of child labor on schooling. The report concludes with a discussion of the road ahead.","producer":"International Labour Organization and UNICEF","citationFull":"International Labour Organization and United Nations Children's Fund, Child Labour: Global estimates 2024, trends and the road forward, ILO and UNICEF, Geneva and New York, 2025. License: CC BY 4.0.","attributionShort":"ILO and UNICEF","versionProducer":"2024","urlMain":"https://www.ilo.org/publications/major-publications/child-labour-global-estimates-2024-trends-and-road-forward","dateAccessed":"2026-04-08","datePublished":"2025-06-11","license":{"url":"https://www.ilo.org/sites/default/files/2025-06/2024%20Global%20Estimates%20of%20Child%20Labour%20Report.pdf","name":"CC BY 4.0"}},{"id":28445,"title":"Marking progress against child labour - Global estimates and trends 2000-2012","description":"This report from the International Labour Organization (ILO) presents global and regional estimates of child labor for 2012 and compares them with the earlier estimates for 2000, 2004 and 2008. It covers children aged 5 to 17 in employment, in child labor and in hazardous work, broken down by region, sex, age group, national income and sector of economic activity.\n\nTable 5 of the report gives the number (in thousands) and share of children in employment, in child labor and in hazardous work by age group: ages 5 to 14 and 15 to 17 for 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012, and ages 5 to 11 and 12 to 14 for 2012 only.","producer":"International Labour Organization","citationFull":"ILO-IPEC. Marking progress against child labour - Global estimates and trends 2000-2012. International Labour Office, International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC). Geneva: ILO, 2013.","versionProducer":"2012","urlMain":"https://www.ilo.org/publications/marking-progress-against-child-labour-global-estimates-and-trends-2000-2012","urlDownload":"https://www.ilo.org/sites/default/files/wcmsp5/groups/public/%40ed_norm/%40ipec/documents/publication/wcms_221513.pdf","dateAccessed":"2026-11-12","datePublished":"2013-09-23","license":{"url":"https://www.ilo.org/sites/default/files/wcmsp5/groups/public/%40ed_norm/%40ipec/documents/publication/wcms_221513.pdf","name":"© International Labour Organization 2013"}}]}