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
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