Marking progress against child labour

1 Marking progress against child labour Global estimates and trends 2000-2012. international Programme on the Elimination of child labour Governance and Tripartism Department (IPEC). Marking progress against child labour Global estimates and trends 2000-2012. international Programme on Governance and Tripartism Department the Elimination of child labour international labour office (IPEC). Copyright international labour Organization 2013. First published 2013. Publications of the international labour office enjoy copyright under Protocol 2 of the Universal Copyright Convention. Nevertheless, short excerpts from them may be reproduced without authorization, on condition that the source is indicated. For rights of reproduction or translation, application should be made to ILO Publications (Rights and Permissions), international labour office , CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland, or by email: The international labour office welcomes such applications.

2 Libraries, institutions and other users registered with reproduction rights organizations may make copies in accordance with the licences issued to them for this purpose. Visit to find the reproduction rights organization in your country. 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. ISBN: 978-92-2-127181-9 (Print). ISBN: 978-92-2-127182-6 (Web PDF). international labour office ; ILO international Programme on the Elimination of child labour (IPEC). Also available in French: Mesurer les progr s dans la lutte contre le travail des enfants - Estimations et tendances mondiales 2000-2012, ISBN 978-92-2-227181-8 (Print), 978-92-2-227182-5 (Web PDF), Geneva, 2013; in Spanish: Medir los progresos en la lucha contra el trabajo infantil - Estimaciones y tendencias mundiales entre 2000 y 2012, ISBN 978-92-2-327181-7 (Print), 978-92-2-327182-4 (Web PDF), Geneva, 2013; and in Portuguese: Medir o progresso na Luta contra o Trabalho Infantil - Estimativas e tend ncias mundiais 2000-2012, ISBN: 978-92- 2-827181-2 (Print), 978-92-2-827182-9 (Web PDF), Geneva, 2013.

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5 The current picture: global child labour estimates for 15. Involvement in child 17. child labour by child labour by child labour by Involvement in hazardous 20. Hazardous work by Hazardous work by Hazardous work by Forced labour of Characteristics of child 23. 3. The dynamic picture: trends in child labour for the period 25. Trends in child 28. Regional trends in child iii Marking progress against child labour - GLOBAL ESTIMATES AND TRENDS 2000-2012. Age-specific trends in child Gender-specific trends in child Trends in hazardous 32. Age-specific trends in hazardous Gender-specific trends in hazardous Changes in the characteristics of child 35. 4. Looking Annex: concepts and FIGURES. Figure 1. Number of actions reported under Conventions Nos. 138 and 182 by type, 1999-2005, 2006-2009 and Figure 2.

6 Number of children in child labour and hazardous work, actual 2000-2012. and levels for 2016-2020 assuming pace of progress during Figure 3. child labour by region, 5-17 years age group, Figure 4. child labour distribution by age group, Figure 5. Children in child labour by sex and age group, Figure 6. Children in hazardous work by region, 5-17 years age group, Figure 7. Hazardous work distribution by age group, Figure 8. Sectoral distribution of children in child labour , 5-17 years age group, Figure 9. Children in child labour by status in employment, 5-17 years age group, Figure 10. Global trends in incidence of child labour and hazardous work, 5-17 years age group, Figure 11. Global trends in number of children in child labour and hazardous work, 5-17 years age group, Figure 12. Regional trends in number of children in child labour , 5-17 years age group, 2008 and Figure 13.

7 Regional trends in incidence of child labour , 5-17 years age group, 2008 and Figure 14. Changes in the regional distribution of children in child labour , 5-17 years age group, 2008 and Figure 15. Trends in child labour by age group, Figure 16. Trends in child labour by sex, 5-17 years age group, Figure 17. Relative changes in child labour and hazardous work, 5-17 years age group, Figure 18. Trends in hazardous work by age group, Figure 19. Trends in hazardous work by sex, 5-17 years age group, iv Figure 20. child labour trends in the economic sector and in the status in the employment, 5-17 years age group, 2008 and Figure 21. Children in employment, child labour and worst forms of child Figure 22. Conceptual framework of the ILO global estimation of child TABLES. Table 1. Children in employment, child labour and hazardous work, 5-17 years age group, Table 2.

8 Children in employment, child labour and hazardous work by region, 5-17 years age group, Table 3. Children in employment, child labour and hazardous work by region, 5-17 years age group, 2008 and Table 4. Children in employment, child labour and hazardous work by sex, 5-17 years age group, Table 5. Children in employment, child labour and hazardous work by age group, Table 6. child labour distribution by level of national income, 5-17 years age group, Table 7. Sectoral distribution of child labour , number and percentage share, 5-17 years age group, 2008 and Table 8. Children in employment, child labour and hazardous work by sex, age group and region, Table 9. Children in employment, child labour and hazardous work by sex and age group, Table 10. Children in employment, child labour and hazardous work by region, 5-17 years age group, 2008 and v Executive summary Since the year 2000, the ILO has been taking that real advances have been made in the fight stock and measuring global progress on the against child labour , particularly over the last four reduction of child labour .

9 Since 2006, it has years. This means governments, workers and undertaken this analysis in light of the target employers organisations, and civil society are on set by the international labour Organization of the right track and moving in the right direction. eliminating all the worst forms of child labour The investment, experience and attention paid to by 2016. This report follows the Global Report the elimination of child labour , with priority given series on child labour under the follow up to the to its worst forms, are clearly paying off. ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and However good this news is, it has to be Rights at Work. Its focus is on the presentation accompanied with an immediate reminder that of the new fourth round of child labour estimates success in this field can only be relative.

10 As for 2012 and to identify the trends from 2000 the assessment of the previous Global Report to 2012. The estimates are based on refined underlined, the progress is still too slow and its estimation techniques fully comparable with the pace needs to pick up if the world community ones for 2000, 2004 and 2008 rounds. is going to come anywhere near to meeting the The Report is divided into four parts. Chapter 1 2016 goal which it aims to achieve. presents the main results of the newest estimates The new estimates presented in this Report and trends as well as a brief overview of the indicate that 168 million children worldwide are driving action behind the results. Chapter 2 in child labour , accounting for almost 11 per provides the details on the newest estimates for cent of the child population as a whole.