Child Labour Statistics

The statistical information regarding child labour in the world, as well as in the individual countries can never be taken to be precise, as there are areas where no accounting has been done. There are innumerable workshops and factories that have cramped up rooms where children work, eat and sleep. No one from the outside world would even know that they are working there.

However, a number of people working towards the welfare of child labourers have, with the tip of from insiders, have been rescue a number of children from such units. However, there are far too many such employers and they keep increasing.

Yet, even if we look at the existing child labour statistics, the fact is that almost 55% of the children of the world are working under trying and torturous circumstances. They are suffering. Their health is failing and a large number do not live to even see their adolescences, while still more do not live beyond their thirtieth birthday. This is a grave and true situation.

In India innumerable children through the length and breadth of the nation are into some kind of bonded labour. And unfortunately it is their greedy parents and guardians who sell them for measly amounts of money; or simply to get out of debt. There is ruthlessness amongst such parents. It is as though they make children to relieve them from their financial burdens. Such is the story!

While the number of children employed and exploited increases with each passing year, considering the rampant population increase the nation faces, we must applaud the efforts made by sections of the government, social workers, non-government organizations and others to rescue and rehabilitate the children. These numbers are also rather encouraging in the pages of statistical information.