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Currently, there are nearly 30 million people held in slavery and an estimated 26 percent are children.
In 2012, 168 million children – from 5-years-old to 17 – were involved in child labor. Of this number, 85 million worked in hazardous conditions, enduring beatings to sexual violence.
Around the world one in six children are forced to work, with children below the age of 18 representing between 40 to 50 percent of laborers.
Children living in more rural areas can begin working as young as the age of five.
According to the ILO, an estimated two thirds of all child labor is in the agricultural sector.
The highest proportion of child laborers is in Sub-Saharan Africa where 49 million children are forced laborers.
The highest numbers of child laborers are in Asia and the Pacific, where over 122 million children are forced into work.
According to the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF), there are over 300,000 child soldiers forced into armed combat.
In most regions, girls are just as likely as boys to be involved in child labor; however, girls are more likely to be involved in domestic work.
According to the ILO, only one in five child laborers is paid for their work, as the majority of child laborers are unpaid family workers.