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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Tob Control. 2011 Apr 19;20(6):403–411. doi: 10.1136/tc.2010.039537

Table 2.

Costs of Child Labor in Selected Tobacco Growing Developing Countries

Total Employment in Tobacco Growing Child Laborers in tobacco farming (14 years and younger) Minimum daily wage, US$ Unpaid Costs of Child Labor (child laborers X daily wage X 198 days), US$ (million)
Brazil 910,000110 166,400111 8.40 276.8
India 850,000112 500,000* 3.00 297.0
Argentina 156,000* 34,000* 15.00 100.0
Indonesia 683,603113 170,900114 0.40113 13.5
Malawi 586,000112 72,00051 0.75 10.7
Pakistan 80,000115 20,000* 2.00 7.9
Turkey 586,616* 117,323* 18.00 418.1
Zimbabwe 100,000112 6,400* 1.00 1.3
Thailand 31,708 112 6,341* 4.50 5.6
Mozambique 124,000116 96,000117 2.00118 38.0
Tanzania 200,000119 80,000* 1.25 19.8
Zambia 60,000120 30,000121 3.00122 17.8
Total Selected 4,367,927 1,299,364 1,206.6
World Total 40,000,000112 NA
*

Estimate;

NA Not available.