TOTAL POPULATION 13,294,000
CHILD POPULATION 5,849,360 |
Population Reference Bureau -2004 |
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TOTAL CHILD LABOUR
According to UNICEF 22% of children between 5-14 years are child labourers |
State of World's Children 2005, UNICEF |
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ECONOMICALLY ACTIVE POPULATION
For the year 2010, the total economically active population is estimated to be 7,840,000. Of them 558,000 are estimated to be children in the age group of 10-14 years representing 24% of children in that age group |
ILO, Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population |
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GENDER RATIO
980 females for 1000 males |
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CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL
No Confirmed Data |
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PROGRESS ON PRIMARY EDUCATION MDG
No Confirmed Data |
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CHILD SLAVERY
No Confirmed Data |
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CHILD TRAFFICKING
Angola is a source country for children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation. |
US Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report 2005 |
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CHILD PROSTITUTION & PRONOGRAPHY
Angolan girls move back and forth across Angola’s border with Namibia to engage in prostitution with truck drivers. There are unconfirmed anecdotal reports of trafficking for the purpose of child commercial sexual exploitation in Angola’s cities. |
US Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report 2005 |
| According to Defence for Children International (DCI), 22 % of children in the capital are without proper protection and are highly vulnerable to exploitation. About 800,000 children under 15 years of age are displaced and are dependent on humanitarian aid and 3000 children under the age of 18 are involved in prostitution for survival.
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ECPAT CSEC Database,
http://www.ecpat.net/eng/
Ecpat_inter/projects/monitoring/
online_database/index.asp |
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CHILDREN USED IN CRIME
Using information collected during the Government's first child registration campaign, it was estimated that there are approximately 1,500 street children in Luanda. Conditions in government youth centers were poor; most homeless children slept on city streets. They shined shoes, washed cars, and carried water, and many resorted to petty crime, begging, and prostitution to survive. |
US Dept. of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices- 2004, February 2005 |
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CHILD SOLDIERS
Child soldiers were used extensively during the civil war by both government armed forces and the armed opposition group, UNITA (União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola), National Union for the Total Independence of Angola.
In March 2003 the government estimated that under-18s had composed 10 per cent of the armed forces at the end of the war. As many as 30,000 girls were estimated to have been abducted by fighting forces during the war.
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CSUCS, Global Report on Child Soldiers, 2004 |
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CHILD LABOUR IN UNORGANISED SECTOR
In 2000, it was estimated that there were approximately 24,000 predominantly male homeless street children living in Angola as a result of the civil conflict.
Children also work in subsistence agriculture, as domestic servants, as street vendors, and as beggars |
The US Dept. of Labor's 2003 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labour. |
| Children worked on family farms, as domestic servants, and in the informal sector as street vendors |
US Dept. of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices- 2004, February 2005 |
