World Bank · Labor

Children in employment, study and work

Children in employment refer to children involved in economic activity for at least one hour in the reference week of the survey. Study and work refer to children attending school in combination with economic activity.

Coverage
100 of 238 countries
Latest data
2016
Series
100
Unit
percent
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-05
Indicator
children-in-employment-study-and-work
Interva ID
worldbank-children-in-employment-study-and-work

Recency

stale

data to 2016; catalog to 2025

Provenance

4 steps

as the publisher declares it

Versions

1

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.

Recency

0%

Latest observation is 2016; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 9 year(s) behind (stale).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

33%

83 of 100 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 33% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 100 of the 238 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 2 observations; the earliest begins in 1994.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.

By country

Children in employment, study and work for each of the 100 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Costa Rica201685.26percent
Jordan201679.98percent
Bolivia, Plurinational State of201593.28percent
Brazil201595.96percent
Chad201550.73percent
Colombia201586.64percent
Ecuador201591.78percent
Gambia201543.37percent
Guatemala201561.03percent
Malawi201592.70percent

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    International Labour Organization

    Understanding Children's Work, International Labour Organization (ILO)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    UNICEF

    UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), note: Understanding Children's Work

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    World Bank

    World Bank (WB), note: Understanding Children's Work

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Versions

A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.

  • CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded

Related datasets

Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-05. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

World Bank (2026). Children in employment, study and work. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-children-in-employment-study-and-work (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-children-in-employment-study-and-work,
  title        = {Children in employment, study and work},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-children-in-employment-study-and-work}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-children-in-employment-study-and-work; catalog snapshot 2026-11-05},
  urldate      = {2026-11-07}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

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