Economically active children, work only by country. Definition, graph and map.

Rank	Countries	Amount	Date
# 1	Guinea:	98.6 %	1994
# 2	Burkina Faso:	95.94 %	1998
# 3	Morocco:	93.2 %	1999
# 4	India:	89.8 %	2000
# 5	Madagascar:	85.12 %	2001
# 6	Zambia:	72.83 %	1999
# 7	Mali:	68.73 %	2001
# 8	Turkey:	66.81 %	1999
# 9	Yemen:	64.34 %	1999
# 10	Guinea-Bissau:	63.7 %	2000
# 11	Ethiopia:	63.46 %	2001
# 12	Bangladesh:	63.29 %	2003
# 13	Egypt:	60.9 %	1998
# 14	Senegal:	56.16 %	2000
# 15	Sudan:	55.94 %	2000
# 16	Central African Republic:	54.93 %	2000
# 17	Sierra Leone:	53.8 %	2000
# 18	Cameroon:	52.49 %	2001
# 19	Iraq:	51.69 %	2000
# 20	Burundi:	48.32 %	2000
# 21	Côte d'Ivoire:	46.44 %	2000
# 22	Mexico:	45.6 %	1996
# 23	Chad:	44.57 %	2000
# 24	Comoros:	43.43 %	2000
# 25	Albania:	43.13 %	2000
# 26	Honduras:	41.88 %	2002
# 27	Gambia, The:	41.61 %	2000
# 28	Tanzania:	39.98 %	2001
# 29	Guatemala:	38.55 %	2000
# 30	Panama:	37.5 %	2000
# 31	Ghana:	36.36 %	2000
# 32	Congo, Democratic Republic of the:	35.7 %	2000
# 33	Nepal:	35.6 %	1999
# 34	Nicaragua:	33.28 %	2001
# 35	Angola:	30.3 %	2001
# 36	Togo:	28.41 %	2000
# 37	Mongolia:	28.23 %	2000
# 38	Rwanda:	27.49 %	2000
# 39	East Timor:	26.8 %	2001
# 40	Ecuador:	25.05 %	2001
# 41	Paraguay:	24.22 %	1999
# 42	Colombia:	22.97 %	2001
# 43	Costa Rica:	20.81 %	2002
# 44	Romania:	20.7 %	2000
# 45	Bolivia:	19.71 %	2000
# 46	El Salvador:	19.48 %	2003
# 47	Uganda:	18.27 %	2003
# 48	Venezuela:	17.58 %	2003
# 49	Lesotho:	17.56 %	2000
# 50	Kenya:	17.29 %	2000
# 51	Malawi:	17.14 %	2000
# 52	Jamaica:	17.1 %	2000
# 53	Cambodia:	16.47 %	2001
# 54	Belize:	16.11 %	2001
# 55	Philippines:	14.8 %	2001
# 56	Swaziland:	14.02 %	2000
# 57	Trinidad and Tobago:	12.82 %	2000
# 58	Zimbabwe:	12 %	1999
# 59	Namibia:	9.49 %	1999
# 60	Argentina:	8.6 %	1997
# 61	Peru:	7.34 %	1994
# 62	Dominican Republic:	7.2 %	2000
# 63	Kyrgyzstan:	7 %	1998
# 64	Brazil:	5.76 %	2003
# 65	Sri Lanka:	5.4 %	1998
# 66	South Africa:	5.1 %	1999
= 67	Kazakhstan:	4.4 %	1996
= 67	Guyana:	4.4 %	2000
# 69	Azerbaijan:	4.18 %	2000
# 70	Uzbekistan:	4.1 %	2000
# 71	Chile:	4.04 %	2003
# 72	Bosnia and Herzegovina:	3.96 %	2000
# 73	Moldova:	3.84 %	2000
# 74	Portugal:	3.6 %	2001
	Weighted average:	33.7 %

DEFINITION: Economically active children refer to children involved in economic activity for at least one hour in the reference week of the survey. Work only refers to children involved in economic activity and not attending school.
% of economically active children, ages 7-14

SOURCE: World Development Indicators database

Labor Statistics > Economically active children, work only (most recent) by country

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