Listed are some quick facts about child labour.

• Globally, 218 million children are child labourers.

• 126 million of these children are engaged in hazardous work.

• 73 million working children are less than 10 years old.

• Every year, 22,000 children die in work-related accidents.

• The largest number of working children-122 million-are in the Asia-Pacific region.

• The highest proportion of working children is in sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly one third of the children aged 14 and under (48 million children) are in the labour force.

• 8.4 million children are trapped in slavery, trafficking, debt bondage, prostitution, pornography and other illicit activities.

• The number of children involved in armed conflicts has increased to about 300,000 over the past decade.

• Between 40 and 50 per cent of all forced labourers are chidren.

• 1.2 million of these children have been trafficked (bought and/or sold).

• Nearly 70% are in agriculture (rural children, especially girls, usually start working in this industry when they are very young, often between 5 and 7 years of age).

• 22% are in services, including wholesale and retail trade, restaurants and hotels, transport, personal services, etc.

• 9% are in industry, including mining and quarrying, manufacturing and construction.

• In developed countries, more then 16% of the children suffer through child labour in their whole life.

Asia and Europe

Five ? ? ? There are presently 193 members of the United Nations.
Well over 150 of them are in the Eastern hemisphere.

Here are a dozen:

• Andorra la Vella
• Vanuatu
• Myanmar
• Tuvalu
• Bhutan
• Comoros
• Nepal
• Mauritius
• Seychelles
• Bahrain
• Maldives
• The Holy See
  

• Andorra la Vella
• Tuvalu
• Bhutan
• Vanuatu
• Myanmar

Germany's major ports are:

• Hamburg
• Bremen
• Emden
• Rostock
• Kiel

In addition there are two important inland ports:

• Duisburg
• Ludwigshafen

The Western Hemisphere (west longitude) has more water than the Eastern Hemisphere (east longitude), which has more land area. Asia, most of Europe, most of Africa, Australia, and about 70% of Antarctica comprise the land of the Eastern Hemisphere, compared to two continents (Americas) for the Western. The Eastern and Western hemispheres roughly split the Pacific Ocean, plus the Western Hemisphere contains practically all of the Atlantic Ocean.

The comparison is about the same if the alternate convention is used, in which the eastern hemisphere is defined as between 20°W and 160°E.

(Because of the grouping of the major continents, the southern hemisphere has much more water and the northern hemisphere has much more land.)