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).