– Sub-Saharan Africa Becomes New Child-Labor Hostpot:
160 million children aged between 5 and 17 worked in child labor in 2020, 79 million of which in hazardous work actively endangering their physical and mental health, according to a report by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
As Statista’s Florian Zandt shows in the following chart – based on historical and current estimates as well as trend projections – more than half of child laborers were concentrated in one region.
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