On June 11, 2025, ahead of World Day Against Child Labour, the ILO and UNICEF released the report Child Labour Global Estimates 2024, trends and the road forward, which provides updated estimates of child labour at global and regional levels. This summary provides an overview of key trends.
The data used to prepare the report comes from national surveys. As of 2024, these surveys were representative of 60% of the global population of children and 82% of children in Africa. More data from such surveys was available compared to previous years, strengthening the reliability of these results.
