2024-06-14 00:50:53
Moroccan official figures revealed that 69,000 youngsters are doing harmful work, which represents 63.3% of the full variety of working youngsters within the Kingdom.
Based on a information observe from the Excessive Planning Fee, out of seven million and 775 thousand youngsters between the ages of seven and 17 years, the variety of lively youngsters working in Morocco reached 110 thousand.
On the event of the World Day Towards Little one Labour, the Fee indicated that this determine represents 1.4% of the full variety of youngsters who belong to this age group within the Kingdom.
This share quantities to 2.8% in rural areas, with roughly 88,000 working youngsters, in comparison with 0.5% in city areas, with roughly 22,000 working youngsters, in line with the memorandum.
The phenomenon of kid labor is extra widespread amongst males than females, and is commonly linked to dropping out of college, because the Fee reported that 85.6% of working youngsters are male, 91.5% of them are between 15 and 17 years outdated, and 79.9% stay in rural areas.
The identical supply identified that 8.6% of kids work in parallel with their faculties, and 89.1% have left faculty, whereas 2.3% of them have by no means entered faculty.
Based on the identical memorandum, the phenomenon of working youngsters stays concentrated in sure financial sectors, with variations relying on the place of residence.
In rural areas, 74.1% of kids work within the “agriculture, forestry, and fishing” sector, whereas in city areas, the “providers” sectors, with 51%, and “business,” with 28.1%, are thought-about the 2 predominant sectors for youngster employment.
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2024-06-14 00:50:53