5. Sri Lanka 72.1%
According to the Sri Lanka Guardian article, children can only dream to go to school. Unlike Jordan where children work for 33 hours per week, in Sri Lanka they work over 43 hours. Every third out of five children is doing a hazardous job, where girls collect their paycheck on a monthly basis while boys collect their money by the end of the day. Even though such acts are punishable, Children Division Commissioner Padamanthan Mahdeva said that the majority of children is working in sectors such as fishing and packaging. For more detailed report on Child Activity Survey Sri Lanka 2016, you can find here.
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