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Benin

SDG indicator 8.7.1 Proportion of children engaged in economic activity
With household chores - age 5-17 (2022) Without household chores - age 5-17 (2022)
Total 16 % 19.9 %
Female 14.2 % 19.4 %
Male 17.8 % 20.4 %
SDG indicator 5.3.1 Proportion of women aged 20 - 24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18
5.90%
Before age 15 (2022)
27.50%
Before age 18 (2022)
Latest ratifications - View all
C143
11 Jun 1980
Ratified
C138
11 Jun 2001
Ratified
C182
06 Nov 2001
Ratified
SDG indicator 16.2.2 Number of victims of human trafficking per 100,000 population
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
4.61
2017
2018
5.7
2019
10.43
2020
16.98
2021
10.87
2022
SDG indicator 16.2.2 Number of victims of human trafficking for forced labour, servitude and slavery, per 100,000 population
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
9.09
2022
Sources: UN SDG & ILO Normlex

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Priorities

  • Intensify action in the agriculture, livestock, fishing, mining and domestic work sectors
  • Coordination of action to fight against child labour, human trafficking and forced labour
  • Monitoring, data collection and knowledge sharing (harmonising data collection tools)
  • Mobilisation of resources to fight against trafficking, child labour and forced labour.
  • Repressing the perpetrators, co-perpetrators and accomplices of trafficking, child labour and forced labour.

International Instruments

Zone Ilo Instrument État Ratification date CEACR comments
Child Labour
C138
Ratification of C138 - Minimum Age Convention (1973)
In Force 11 Jun 2001
Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery
C182
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999)
In Force 06 Nov 2001
Child Labour, Modern Slavery
C029
Forced Labour Convention (1930)
In Force 12 Dec 1960
Forced Labour, Modern Slavery
C105
Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (1957)
In Force 22 May 1961
Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery
C143
Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention (1975)
In Force 11 Jun 1980
Freedom of Association
C087
Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (1948)
In Force 12 Dec 1960
Freedom of Association
C098
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949)
In Force 16 May 1968
Discrimination
C100
Equal Remuneration Convention (1951)
In Force 16 May 1968
Discrimination
C111
Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (1958)
In Force 22 May 1961
Sources: ILO Normlex & UN Treaty Collection
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