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Statistics

Below are some facts relating to child labour in Nepal. For more information about these statistics, visit CWIN.

› Of working children in Nepal:
  • 64% go to school, 36% do not go to school.
  • 26% of male children do not go to school;
  • 49% of female children do not attend school.
› 4 out of 10 children work in Nepal (41.7%). › 6 out of 10 child labourers are girls. › 1.7 million children in Nepal are engaged in economic activity:
  • 1.4 million are involved in unpaid activities
  • 278,000 in paid
› Girls work longer hours than boys:
  • 88% of girls work 14 hours or more per day
  • 35% of girls worked 42 hours or more per week
  • 80% of boys work 14 hours or more per day
  • 22% of boys worked 42 hours or more per week
› More children work in the mountains than in the Terai:
  • 52.3% children work in the mountain region
  • 45.4% in the hilly region
  • 36.3% in the Terai region.
› 127,000 children are involved in the most hazardous work. › The worst forms of child labour in Nepal are:
  • 57,000 bonded child laborers between age group 5-18.
  • 55,000 domestic workers
  • 46,029 child porters
  • 12,000 girls are trafficked every year and 20% of the sex workers in Nepal are under age of 16
  • 4,000 rag pickers earning 60p a day (88% boys and 12% girls).



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