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Ethiopia
Child labor is tightly coupled to climate shocks: negative rainfall shocks measurably raise child labor rates in coffee-growing and pastoral regions, since families use child labor as a short-term response to crop failure and food-income loss.
43%
Children working
ILO / UNICEF
68%
School attendance rate
World Bank
Above median
Vs. the 6-country study
Gupta, IJARESM 2025
Where children work
Agriculture, domestic work, weaving, mining, farm labor