TOTAL POPULATION 179,091,000
CHILD POPULATION 53,727,300 |
Population Reference Bureau -2004 |
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TOTAL CHILD LABOUR
7%* of children aged 5-14 are estimated to be involved in child labor as per the UNICEF |
State of World's Children 2005, UNICEF |
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ECONOMICALLY ACTIVE POPULATION
For the year 2010, there are estimated to be 89,647,000 economically active people. Of them 1,739,000 children aged 10-14 or 10.9% of children in this age group are estimated to be economically active |
ILO, Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population |
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GENDER RATIO
1020 females for 1000 males |
CIA, factbook-2005 (Fig is an estimate for 2005) |
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CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL
Data not available |
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PROGRESS ON PRIMARY EDUCATION MDG
With the EDI 0.899, the level of EDI is medium. |
UNESCO's EFA Global Monitoring Report 2005 |
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CHILD SLAVERY
The ILO estimated in 2002 that 450,000 children, mostly girls, are employed as domestic servants and vulnerable to abuse.
Trafficking for forced agricultural labor remains a major problem, with most of the more than 25,000 victims recruited from small towns in Brazil’s northeast. |
US Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report 2005 |
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CHILD TRAFFICKING
The law does not prohibit trafficking in persons, although penal code provisions cover such related offenses as abduction and kidnapping, slave trafficking, compulsory labor, and procuring women and girls for the purpose of prostitution. |
US Dept. of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices- 2004, February 2005 |
| During the year, there were reports that poor rural children were taken from their homes under false pretenses and forced to work as maids or cattle herders. And there were reports that some children who were orphaned by HIV/AIDS became prostitutes in urban areas. |
US Dept. of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices- 2004, February 2005 |
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CHILD PROSTITUTION & PRONOGRAPHY
Women and girls are trafficked internally for sexual exploitation and to neighboring countries in South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Japan, and the Middle East.
Approximately 70,000 Brazilians, mostly women, are engaged in prostitution in foreign countries and many are trafficking victims; their major destinations are countries in Europe, particularly Spain, and South America and Japan. |
US Dept. of State, Trafficking in Persons Report 2005 |
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CHILDREN USED IN CRIME
Children were involved in urban-based drug factions engaging in armed confrontations with other armed groups and the security forces. |
CSUCS, Global Report on Child Soldiers, 2004 |
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CHILD SOLDIERS
Military service regulations set the voluntary recruitment age at 18, but the possibility of voluntary enlistment at 17 years appeared to exist in law.
All military schools have a minimum age of entry, and some of them admit 14 year olds. It was not known if under-18s receive weapons training. |
CSUCS, Global Report on Child Soldiers, 2004 |
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CHILD LABOUR IN UNORGANISED SECTOR
In 2003, 6.7 percent of children age 14 and under worked. Approximately half of child laborers received no income, and 90 percent worked in the unregistered informal sector.
In urban areas, children worked in shoe shining, transportation, construction, restaurants, street peddling, begging, drug trafficking, and prostitution
The Ministry of Labor reported that children worked in approximately 100 rural and urban activities. Common rural activities included fishing, mining, raising livestock, producing charcoal, and harvesting sugarcane and other crops.
*: The figure is only for a section of the population as per the UNICEF report
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US Dept. of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices- 2004, February 2005 |
