In 2023, there was a 14.6% decrease in children in child labor compared to 2022. Brazil reached the lowest figure since data was available.
Brazil registered 1,607 million children and adolescents between 5 and 17 years old in child labor in 2023, the lowest figure since these data were recorded, official sources indicated this Friday.
According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), There was a decrease of 14.6% compared to 2022 and 23.9% compared to 2016year in which the institute began collecting this data.
Almost a third of the children and adolescents aged 5 to 17 years in child labor were in the Northeast, with the highest proportion in the Northern Region, where 6.9% of the children and adolescents were in work. children’s, in 2023.
Children, both men and women, earn, on average, less than half the national minimum wage.
The average monthly income of working children was 815 reais (132 euros), while female workers received 695 reais (113 euros).
Brazilian law allows hiring a 14-year-old teenager as an apprentice and from the age of 16 hired, as long as they are not dangerous or night jobs, without any registration, below the minimum wage, or without protection of labor rights.
According to the latest data from the ILO and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), child labor has increased around the world in recent years and currently affects around 160 million children.
Latin America and the Caribbean managed to stop this global increase, but in the region there are still 8.2 million children and adolescents in child labor.
Source: Observadora
