138 million children in the world are in child labor: that was the headline estimate in a report from the United Nations last year. To put this in perspective, that’s enough children to fill around 2 million school buses.
In the Sustainable Development Goals, the world had signed on to the target of “ending child labor in all its forms by 2025”. Clearly, we have missed this by a huge margin…
Source: Our World in Data – A project of Global Change Data Lab
Our World In Data
- Which countries have already passed peak population, and when will the rest do so?
- 138 million children are in child labor. What does this actually mean?
- How primary energy is measured has changed across our charts
- What has driven deforestation in the 21st century?
- We published a new topic page on economic inequality
Climate Change
- Air conditioning is almost universal in the US and Japan — but not elsewhere
- Hannah Ritchie’s book, Clearing the Air, is coming out in paperback in September
- How do we track a changing climate?
