A boy sells tea on the street in Dhaka. Although child labor is illegal in Bangladesh an estimated 4.9 million Bangladeshi children aged 5 to 15 are working according to UNICEF. They often work in hazardous environments and have little access to education. According to a recent World Bank study, Bangladesh is among at least 33 countries that are at risk of serious political unrest if food and fuel prices keep rising. Bangladesh is currently one of the world's poorest countries, where nearly 40 percent of the 144 million population survive on less than a dollar a day and on average spend eighty percent of their income on food.
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