Child labour

Name: Child labour — WorldScore
Creator: World Bank
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Tier B· Reputable

Share of children aged 7–14 engaged in economic activity. Measured mainly in developing countries; reference years are old — see caveat.

100 = lowest child labour (best), 0 = highest

Mixed reference years (2000–2016). This metric uses each country's most recent available year, so countries are not all measured in the same year — cross-country comparison is weakened. Each row shows its own reference year.

How this score is built

Children in employment — % of children aged 7–14 in economic activity — World Bank indicator SL.TLF.0714.ZS (from national surveys, UCW/UNICEF/ILO). Direction is higher_worse; normalized with min–max and inverted, so 100 = lowest child labour.

⚠️ Old, uneven coverage. Child labour is measured through periodic household surveys, mostly in developing countries (~100 countries; the latest global year is around 2016, and per-country reference years vary widely and are often a decade old). Rich countries where child labour is negligible are simply not surveyed and show "no data", not 0. This is why it is Tier B. The reference year is shown per country — read it as a dated snapshot, not a current figure.

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100No data

100 = lowest child labour (best), 0 = highest

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97 countries with data. Rank 1 = best. Click a column to sort; click a country for its full provenance.

Continent

Rank ↑	Country	Score	Raw value
1st	JordanJOR	100100	1.23 % of children 7–14
2nd	Costa RicaCRI	99.87100	1.31 % of children 7–14
3rd	RomaniaROU	99.73100	1.4 % of children 7–14
4th	IndiaIND	99.2599	1.7 % of children 7–14
5th	BelarusBLR	98.2998	2.3 % of children 7–14
6th	BrazilBRA	97.9198	2.54 % of children 7–14
7th	LesothoLSO	97.8198	2.6 % of children 7–14
7th	TürkiyeTUR	97.8198	2.6 % of children 7–14
9th	EgyptEGY	97.3497	2.9 % of children 7–14
10th	Trinidad and TobagoTTO	96.5497	3.4 % of children 7–14
10th	TunisiaTUN	96.5497	3.4 % of children 7–14
12th	KazakhstanKAZ	96.2296	3.6 % of children 7–14
13th	PortugalPRT	96.1696	3.63655 % of children 7–14
14th	IndonesiaIDN	96.0696	3.7 % of children 7–14
15th	VenezuelaVEN	95.7296	3.91094 % of children 7–14
16th	ChileCHL	94.7895	4.5 % of children 7–14
16th	MoroccoMAR	94.7895	4.5 % of children 7–14
18th	UkraineUKR	93.9994	5 % of children 7–14
19th	BangladeshBGD	93.9894	5.00208 % of children 7–14
20th	ArgentinaARG	93.9594	5.02525 % of children 7–14
21st	UzbekistanUZB	93.8394	5.1 % of children 7–14
22nd	AzerbaijanAZE	93.6794	5.2 % of children 7–14
23rd	AlbaniaALB	93.1993	5.5 % of children 7–14
24th	ColombiaCOL	93.0993	5.56 % of children 7–14
24th	EcuadorECU	93.0993	5.56201 % of children 7–14
26th	MexicoMEX	93.0293	5.60694 % of children 7–14
27th	PanamaPAN	9393	5.62042 % of children 7–14
28th	RwandaRWA	92.5593	5.9 % of children 7–14
29th	JamaicaJAM	92.0792	6.2 % of children 7–14
30th	IraqIRQ	91.7592	6.4 % of children 7–14
31st	SyriaSYR	91.4391	6.6 % of children 7–14
32nd	GuatemalaGTM	90.4190	7.24264 % of children 7–14
33rd	UruguayURY	90.3290	7.3 % of children 7–14
34th	AlgeriaDZA	9090	7.50076 % of children 7–14
35th	El SalvadorSLV	89.5290	7.80006 % of children 7–14
36th	LaosLAO	88.2488	8.6 % of children 7–14
37th	TajikistanTJK	87.7688	8.9 % of children 7–14
38th	PhilippinesPHL	87.688	9 % of children 7–14
39th	AfghanistanAFG	87.1387	9.3 % of children 7–14
40th	ArmeniaARM	86.1786	9.9 % of children 7–14
41st	ParaguayPRY	85.3485	10.4211 % of children 7–14
42nd	HondurasHND	85.2185	10.5019 % of children 7–14
43rd	Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIH	85.0585	10.6 % of children 7–14
44th	Sri LankaLKA	84.8985	10.7 % of children 7–14
45th	VietnamVNM	84.5785	10.9 % of children 7–14
46th	CambodiaKHM	83.6284	11.5 % of children 7–14
47th	PakistanPAK	81.2281	13 % of children 7–14
48th	Dominican RepublicDOM	80.9181	13.1966 % of children 7–14
49th	EswatiniSWZ	80.7581	13.3 % of children 7–14
50th	BoliviaBOL	79.7680	13.92 % of children 7–14
51st	MauritaniaMRT	78.7979	14.5256 % of children 7–14
52nd	MongoliaMNG	78.5179	14.6991 % of children 7–14
53rd	ThailandTHA	77.8778	15.1 % of children 7–14
54th	YemenYEM	76.2876	16.1 % of children 7–14
55th	SerbiaSRB	73.3573	17.9379 % of children 7–14
56th	LiberiaLBR	72.6173	18.4 % of children 7–14
57th	North MacedoniaMKD	70.3870	19.8 % of children 7–14
58th	Timor-LesteTLS	70.2270	19.9 % of children 7–14
59th	PeruPER	65.9666	22.5666 % of children 7–14
60th	GambiaGMB	64.0864	23.75 % of children 7–14
61st	GabonGAB	63.6864	24 % of children 7–14
62nd	BeninBEN	63.5264	24.1 % of children 7–14
63rd	SenegalSEN	61.8662	25.1389 % of children 7–14
64th	MadagascarMDG	60.4960	26 % of children 7–14
65th	EthiopiaETH	60.3360	26.1 % of children 7–14
66th	MozambiqueMOZ	58.2558	27.4 % of children 7–14
67th	GhanaGHA	56.0856	28.7608 % of children 7–14
68th	MoldovaMDA	55.756	29 % of children 7–14
69th	MaliMLI	54.5855	29.7 % of children 7–14
70th	AngolaAGO	53.9554	30.1 % of children 7–14
71st	SudanSDN	53.2253	30.555 % of children 7–14
72nd	CongoCOG	51.7152	31.5 % of children 7–14
73rd	GeorgiaGEO	51.2351	31.8 % of children 7–14
74th	BurundiBDI	51.0751	31.9 % of children 7–14
75th	ZambiaZMB	47.0947	34.4 % of children 7–14
76th	KenyaKEN	47.0247	34.4389 % of children 7–14
77th	TanzaniaTZA	46.5547	34.7348 % of children 7–14
78th	NigeriaNGA	46.0346	35.0619 % of children 7–14
79th	TogoTGO	45.7746	35.2259 % of children 7–14
80th	Ivory CoastCIV	43.7444	36.5 % of children 7–14
81st	UgandaUGA	43.4243	36.7 % of children 7–14
82nd	Central African RepublicCAF	42.6243	37.2 % of children 7–14
83rd	HaitiHTI	41.6642	37.8 % of children 7–14
84th	GuineaGIN	41.1841	38.1 % of children 7–14
85th	KyrgyzstanKGZ	36.4336	41.0806 % of children 7–14
86th	DR CongoCOD	35.9336	41.3914 % of children 7–14
87th	NepalNPL	33.6434	42.8275 % of children 7–14
88th	SomaliaSOM	32.5733	43.5 % of children 7–14
89th	South SudanSSD	29.2229	45.6 % of children 7–14
90th	NicaraguaNIC	25.7926	47.7498 % of children 7–14
91st	NigerNER	24.5925	48.5 % of children 7–14
92nd	MalawiMWI	23.9524	48.9 % of children 7–14
93rd	Burkina FasoBFA	21.7222	50.3 % of children 7–14
94th	ChadTCD	12.7913	55.8956 % of children 7–14
95th	Sierra LeoneSLE	7.528	59.2 % of children 7–14
96th	CameroonCMR	3.063	62 % of children 7–14
97th	Guinea-BissauGNB	00	63.9162 % of children 7–14

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