• Children make up 30 % (348 million) of the Indian population
• 158 million (75 million girls) are below the age of 7
• 190 million are between ages 7 and 14
• 59 million children have never seen a school
• 73 million are underweight with widespread chronic malnutrition
• 800,000 children die each year from easily preventable diseases
• 5 % of Indian children are affected by some disability
• Of the 27 million children born this year, 2 million will never see their first birthday
• India has 100 million child laborers
• They work 12-15 hours a day for as little as 3 rupees (8 cents) per day
Virginia Baptists march with the children to the new Precious Children's International Village.
• 15 million are bonded child laborers
• There are 18 million street children living in India
• Six million of them are between the ages of 6 and 10
India's children and sexual abuse
• 5 million children are working as prostitutes
• 2 million are between ages 5 and 15
• 3 million are between ages 15 and 18
• 500,000 children are forced into prostitution every year
• Children constitute 40 % of commercial sex workers
• 80 % of these are in the five largest metro areas
• Over 1 million children are trafficked across Asia each year for sexual purposes (World Health Organization figures)
• 63 % of girls in Delhi have been sexually abused by a family member
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19 % of girls are sexually abused before the age of 8
• 28 % of girls are sexually abused before the age of 12
• 35 % of girls are sexually abused before the age of 16
• There is no legislation in India that covers the sexual molestation of young boys or sodomy