Eradicating Child Labor: Ending Economic Exploitation of Children as an Objective of Sustainable Development

Table 1 The number of children in employment, child labor, and hazardous work (2000–2016)

World	Children in employment		Child labor		Hazardous work
	Thousands	%	Thousands	%	Thousands	%
2000	351,900	23.0	245,500	16	170,500	11.1
2004	322,729	20.6	222,294	14.2	128,381	8.2
2008	305,669	19.3	215,209	13.6	115,314	7.3
2012	264,427	16.7	167,956	10.6	85,344	5.4
2016	218,019	13.8	151,622	9.6	72,525	4.6

Source: ILO–IPEC 2013 and 2017
Compiled from the International Labour Office – International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) (2013), and ILO (2017a)