Facts
- 62% of Burmese children are not enrolled in primary schools.
- In 1996, almost 200,000 Burmese children were trafficked to Thailand to work in prostitution and sweatshops.
- At least 50,000 Burmese girls are working as prostitutes.
- Child workers are found mostly in food processing, selling, refuse collecting and tea shop attendants.
- Only 4% of child workers earn wages.
- Burma's army has doubled in size since 1988 with an estimated 350,000 child soldiers.
- People of Burma only live on 30p per day.
- 90,000 children under five die every year.
- 60% of Burmese children are underweight.
- Children living in Burma will have shorter lives than anywhere else in South-east Asia.
- Burma has a life expectancy of 60.
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