A History of Child Labor:

While the number of children employed in the developed world may have dropped significantly since that time, in the developing world the numbers are still very high. There are currently an estimated 218 million child labourers around the world, which works out as 14% of all children between the age of 5 and 17 worldwide. The highest incidence of child labor is in the southern half of Africa. Of those 218 million children in the workforce, 150 million are employed in agriculture, 48 million are in services, and 20 million are working in industrial jobs.

 20 million are working in industrial jobs.

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