Relevant Maps
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Key:
Blue: institutions in place to have a draft, yet no active draft
Orange: conscripton soon to be abolished
Red: conscription
Gray: unknown
Abortion Rights (wikipedia)
Voting Ages (wikipedia)
Iran: 15
Brazil, Cuba, and Nicaragua: 16
Sudan, East Timor, Indonesia, and North Korea: 17
Blue Covering Most of the World: 18
South Korea:19
Cameroon, Japan, Taiwan and Tunisia: 20
Black: 21
Colors progress from light (young voting age) to dark (old)
Homosexual Rights (wikipedia.org)
Drinking Ages, Under Construction (Jordan Schneider)
Drinking Prohibited=Black
21=Red
20=Dark Red
19=Light Purple, Japan
18=Purple, South Korea
17=Bluish Purple
16=Blue, Thailand
Unknown=Grey
No age limit=White, China
Colors based on first age legal to buy any alcohol, not all alcohol. Also, some countries restrict first age of purchase to wine or beer, and allow purchase of hard liquor at a more advanced age.
Labor Laws (teacher.scholastic.com)
Informal Labor (street vending, begging, portering…)
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Commercial labor (includes factory work, farming, fishing, mining, quarrying, and all other forms of manufacturing) |
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Subject to both conditions |
The International Labor Organization (ILO) defines child labor as work by children under 18. Hazardous child labor in the eyes of the ILO is “work which, by its nature or the circumstances in which it is carried out, is likely to harm the health, safety, or morals of children.” This map utilizes these parameters.
Percent of Population under 18 (BBC) (Click on map to view)
Freedom in The World (Freedom House, at Freedomhouse.org)
Green: Free
Orange: Partially Free
Red: Not Free
See Freedom House’s Methodology:
http://freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=35&year=2005
Average Years of Schooling for Adults (epdc.org)
Adult Literacy (epdc.org)
Secondary School Net Enrollment Rate (epdc.org)
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Um, in the Drinking Age chart you have Chili listed as 21, whereas it’s 18. Only five countries are at 21 (Fiji, Pakastan (for non-Muslims), Palau, Sri Lanka and the United States). Your chart shows many more than that, making it either misleading or filled with errors.
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