making palm oil children of the nations

                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
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  • Is child labour a problem in the palm oil industry?
  • "I am dreaming one day I can go back to school," she told the AP. Child labour has long been a dark stain on the $65 billion global palm oil industry, identified as a problem by rights groups, the United Nations and the U.S. government. With little or no access to daycare, some young children in both countries follow their parents to the fields.
  • How many children work in palm oil?
  • Palm oil is one of the largest crops, employing some 16 million people. In much smaller neighboring Malaysia, a newly released government report estimated more than 33,000 children work in the industry there — nearly half of them between the ages of 5 and 11.
  • How many children work in Indonesia's palm oil industry?
  • Indonesian government officials said they do not know how many children work in the country's massive palm oil industry. But the U.N.'s International Labor Organization has estimated 1.5 million children between 10 and 17 years old labor in its agricultural sector. Palm oil is one of the largest crops, employing some 16 million people.
  • How has palm oil production changed since the 1960s?
  • Palm oil production has increased rapidly since the 1960s. Between 1970 and 2020, the world’s production of palm oil increased by about 40 times. Global production went from only 2 million tonnes to around 80 million tonnes. The change in global production is shown in the chart.3