»Noch zehn Prozent der Kinder weltweit arbeiten«

Since the year 2000, the ILO has been taking stock and measuring global progress on the reduction of child labour. Since 2006, it has undertaken this analysis in light of the target set by the International Labour Organization of eliminating all the worst forms of child labour by 2016. This report follows the Global Report series on child labour under the follow up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Its focus is on the presentation of the new fourth round of child labour estimates for 2012 and to identify the trends from 2000 to 2012. The estimates are based on refined estimation techniques fully comparable with the ones for 2000, 2004 and 2008 rounds.

The Report is divided into four parts. Chapter 1 presents the main results of the newest estimates and trends as well as a brief overview of the driving action behind the results. Chapter 2 provides the details on the newest estimates for the year 2012. Chapter 3 presents a dynamic global picture updating the trends for the period 2000-2012. Chapter 4 sets out some pointers on the way forward. The publication of this Report is timed to provide input into the III Global Conference on Child Labour being held in Brasilia in October 2013.

In contrast to the results reported in the 2010 Global Report, which were published before the Global Conference on Child Labour held in The Hague in May 2010, the newest estimates show that real advances have been made in the fight against child labour, particularly over the last four years. This means governments, workers and employers organisations, and civil society are on the right track and moving in the right direction. The investment, experience and attention paid to the elimination of child labour, with priority given to its worst forms, are clearly paying off.

However good this news is, it has to be accompanied with an immediate reminder that success in this field can only be relative. As the assessment of the previous Global Report underlined, the progress is still too slow and its pace needs to pick up if the world community is going to come anywhere near to meeting the 2016 goal which it aims to achieve. The new estimates presented in this Report indicate that 168 million children worldwide are in child labour, accounting for almost 11 percent of the child population as a whole. Children in hazardous work that directly endangers their health, safety and moral development make up more than half of all child labourers, numbering 85 million in absolute terms. The largest absolute number of child labourers is found in the Asia and the Pacific region but Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the region with the highest incidence of child labour with more than one in five children in child labour. 

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