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National Geographic : 2015 Oct
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The average Ivorian and Ghanaian family has six members. 0 1 $2 0.5 1.5 International poverty line 0 20 40 60 80 100% *Many children do both. Working In school Ghana Ivory Coast Ghana Ivory Coast $0.34 $0.45 94 67 79% 59 0 50 100 150 200 250 million 2000 2012 171 85 Hazardous work 168 246 17% 15% CÔTE D’IVOIRE (IVORY COAST) GHANA 98 million 1/10 CHILDREN AND COCOA CHILD LABOR WORLDWIDE Sub-Saharan Africa Asia and the Pacific Middle East and North Africa Latin America and Caribbean 21.4 9.3 8.8 8.4 Growers and workers Traders Manufacturers Retailers Processors 5% 5% 40% 35% 15% AFRICA Children at Work Not all work that children do is exploitive. But child labor is gen- erally defined as work that children are too young to do or that harms their health, slows their develop- ment, or keeps them from school. In the past decade it has declined by nearly a third, thanks in part to global awareness. More child laborers are in ag- riculture than in any other sector. Most work on their families’ farms, so it’s not always clear where to draw the line, says the Internation- al Labour Organization’s Yoshie Noguchi. Still, she warns, keeping kids in jobs instead of school could yield “an uneducated gen- eration that can’t help its country develop.” —Kelsey Nowakowski By the Numbers EXPLORE GHANA AND IVORY COAST PRODUCE HALF THE WORLD’S COCOA SUPPLY. OF CHILDREN AGES5TO17 LOW-WAGE COUNTRIES Average income per day LABOR VS. STUDY* Occupation of children 5-17 years old BY REGION Percentage of children who labor CHILD LABORERS THE INDUSTRY EMPLOYS A LARGE SEGMENT OF THE COUNTRIES’ WORKFORCES. In Ghana and Ivory Coast many cocoa farmers earn so little they can’t afford to pay adult workers. Instead they rely on poorly paid or unpaid children, some of whom are brought in by traffickers from neighboring countries. No regional data available for developed countries
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