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The List of countries by child labour rate provides rankings of countries based on their rates of child labour. Child labour is defined by the International Labour Organization (ILO) as participation in economic activity by underage persons aged 5 to 17. Child work harms children, interferes with their education, and prevents their development.
In 2014, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor, where China was attributed 12 goods, the majority of which were produced by both underage children and indentured labourers. [56] The report listed electronics, garments, toys, and coal, among other goods.
Since 1978, when China began labor force reforms, the overwhelming majority of the labor force were either working at State owned enterprises or as farm workers in the rural countryside. However, over time China began to reform and by the late 90's many had moved from the countryside into the cities in hopes of higher paying jobs and more ...
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State-level rollbacks to child labor protections show the need for a constitutional amendment introduced 100 years ago.
Full time children or full time daughter/son are an occupation in China where the child is paid by their parents to do house chores around the clock and be available to help them. The children are also paid as much as an average worker with a monthly salary of 4000-8000 Yuan or the equivalent of 500-1100 US dollars.
Although new policies allow families to have as many as three children, China's birth rate dropped to 7.52 births per 1,000 people in 2021, the lowest since the National Bureau of Statistics began ...
The cost of raising a child to age 18 in China is 6.3 times its gross domestic product (GDP) per capita - second only to its neighbor South Korea at 7.79 times, according to a YuWa report.