Average working hours of children, working only, female, ages 7-14 (hours per week) - Country Ranking

Definition: Average working hours of children working only refers to the average weekly working hours of those children who are involved in economic activity and not attending school.

Source: Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Turkey 46.60 2006
2 Kenya 44.40 2009
3 Costa Rica 44.16 2016
4 Cambodia 43.90 2012
5 Lao PDR 43.60 2010
6 Zimbabwe 42.90 1999
7 Liberia 41.00 2010
8 Egypt 39.10 2009
9 Honduras 37.08 2014
10 Kyrgyz Republic 36.45 2014
11 Bangladesh 35.59 2013
12 Thailand 35.40 2005
13 Guatemala 35.05 2015
14 Uganda 33.80 2012
15 Vietnam 32.60 2012
16 Bolivia 32.53 2015
17 Somalia 31.70 2006
18 Indonesia 31.00 2010
19 Ecuador 30.64 2015
20 Madagascar 30.40 2007
21 Tanzania 30.16 2014
22 Mexico 29.88 2013
23 El Salvador 29.71 2013
24 Namibia 28.90 1999
25 Mongolia 27.42 2013
26 Albania 27.00 2010
27 Venezuela 26.62 2013
28 Yemen 26.50 2010
29 Kazakhstan 25.00 2006
30 Syrian Arab Republic 24.40 2006
31 Philippines 24.10 2011
31 Timor-Leste 24.10 2007
33 Ethiopia 24.00 2011
34 Paraguay 23.88 2014
35 Pakistan 22.70 2011
36 Mali 22.20 2013
37 Uruguay 21.70 2009
38 Côte d'Ivoire 21.10 2012
39 Romania 20.90 2000
39 Serbia 20.90 2005
41 Burkina Faso 19.40 2010
42 Nicaragua 19.22 2012
43 Senegal 19.14 2015
44 Ghana 18.90 2006
45 Rwanda 18.80 2014
46 Mauritania 18.74 2011
47 Peru 18.72 2015
48 Cameroon 18.50 2011
49 Tajikistan 18.40 2005
50 Togo 17.67 2014
51 Colombia 17.60 2015
52 Congo 17.20 2012
53 Panama 16.94 2014
54 Central African Republic 16.40 2010
55 Malawi 16.30 2015
56 Azerbaijan 15.80 2005
56 Benin 15.80 2012
56 Guinea 15.80 2012
56 Iraq 15.80 2011
60 Brazil 15.40 2015
60 Sri Lanka 15.40 2009
62 Burundi 15.30 2010
63 Angola 14.40 2001
64 Tunisia 13.70 2012
65 Nepal 13.58 2014
66 Mozambique 12.90 2008
67 The Gambia 11.89 2015
68 Chad 11.24 2015
69 Algeria 11.00 2013
70 Lesotho 10.70 2000
71 Sudan 10.61 2014
72 Jordan 10.44 2016
73 Nigeria 9.97 2011
74 Sierra Leone 9.90 2013
75 Gabon 9.80 2012
76 Niger 9.30 2012
77 Dem. Rep. Congo 9.22 2014
78 Afghanistan 8.70 2011
79 Eswatini 8.60 2010
80 Haiti 6.70 2012
81 Guinea-Bissau 5.10 2014
82 Georgia 4.60 2006
82 Zambia 4.60 2008
84 Dominican Republic 3.75 2014
85 Ukraine 1.00 2012
85 North Macedonia 1.00 2011

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Development Relevance: In most countries more boys are involved in employment, or the gender difference is small. However, girls are often more present in hidden or underreported forms of employment such as domestic service, and in almost all societies girls bear greater responsibility for household chores in their own homes, work that lies outside the System of National Accounts production boundary and is thus not considered in estimates of children's employment.

Limitations and Exceptions: Although efforts are made to harmonize the definition of employment and the questions on employment in survey questionnaires, significant differences remain in the survey instruments that collect data on children in employment and in the sampling design underlying the surveys. Differences exist not only across different household surveys in the same country but also across the same type of survey carried out in different countries, so estimates of working children are not fully comparable across countries. For detailed source information, see footnotes at each data point.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Data are from household surveys by the International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank, and national statistical offices. The surveys yield data on education, employment, health, expenditure, and consumption indicators related to children's work. Since children's work is captured in the sense of "economic activity," the data refer to children in employment, a broader concept than child labor (see ILO 2009a for details on this distinction). Household survey data generally include information on work type - for example, whether a child is working for payment in cash or in kind or is involved in unpaid work, working for someone who is not a member of the household, or involved in any type of family work (on the farm or in a business).

Periodicity: Annual