Lahore: Child Labor day is been observed across the globe. India has the record number of Child labor in all over the world. It consists of the largest child labor force in the world. According to the report of 2011 there are five more countries who have the record number of child labor are Bangladesh on 2nd, Chad on 3rd, Democratic Congo on 4th , Ethiopia on 5th , Liberia on 6th, Nigeria on 8th , Pakistan on 9th While Somalia is on 10th.
According to the report published in the newspaper the countries who were mention in the Child labor list are Indonesia who is at 18th, Egypt on 29th, Philippine on 34th, Vietnam on 38th and Mexico on 62nd. There is no official survey issued by the Government of Pakistan on the Child labor.
In 1996 there were about 3 Lakhs Child Labor while the private human rights agencies and organization said that the child labor in Pakistan has crossed the population of 1 Crore. The biggest province who consists of Child labor is Punjab 57%, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 32%, Sindh 10% and Balochistan 1%.