What this indicator measures

The series represents the share of children ages 7–14 engaged in economic activity. Humain Alert retains it as source-dated context, not as a child-protection score.

How Humain Alert displays it

The raw percentage, age range, year and coverage are shown without normalization or an alert gauge. The ILO–UNICEF worldwide 7.8% estimate for ages 5–17 in 2024 is displayed separately and never replaced by this series.

The most important limitation

Coverage is sparse and reference years differ sharply. Missing data never means zero child labour, and old observations should not be presented as current conditions.

Distinguish a percentage from a percentage point

Worked example — invented values. In an invented comparable series, a decline from 6% to 4% is a decrease of 2 percentage points and about 33% relative to the starting value. Those descriptions are both arithmetic statements, but they are not interchangeable. Neither establishes how many children are affected without a matching population denominator.

The dashboard keeps a share of 6% as 6%; it no longer converts child-employment observations to pressure points. A numerical transformation would not convert children in employment into the broader legal and statistical category of child labour. Check the age range and definition before comparing a national survey with a global estimate.

Humain Alert explanation · 13 September 2026. Source definitions are linked below; the example is not a new observation.

Source details

Series	Children in employment
Publisher	ILO via World Bank
Unit	% of children ages 7–14
Source	Open the public dataset ↗

Country examples

MAR

Morocco

Values, years, coverage and interpretation limits.

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ESP

Spain