There are around 265 million working children in the world, almost 17 per cent of the worldwide child population.
The Department of labour is the sole federal agency that monitors child labor and enforces child labor laws. which serves as a statistical resource to the Department of Labor, gathers statistics on a variety of subjects including those related to child labour.
Worldwide 218 million children between 5 and 17 years are in employment.
Among them, 152 million are victims of child labour; almost half of them, 73 million, work in hazardous child labour.
Child labour is concentrated primarily in agriculture (71%), which includes fishing, forestry, livestock herding and aquaculture, and comprises both subsistence and commercial farming; 17% in Services; and 12% in the Industrial sector, including mining.Finally, for hazardous work, the limit is pushed up to 18 years (16 years under certain conditions in developing countries. All these forms of child labour can prevent a child from going to school and limit their opportunity to fulfil their potential. Many child labourers never go to school or drop out.
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