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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

Other countries in the study