Slavery in India

India is one of the highest countries in modern slavery today ranking at number 4 in the world. The population in India is 1,311,051,000 and the estimated amount of people in slavery is 18,354,700 which is 1.400%. India has the most people in the world kept in slavery. And still, about 270 million of people in India are living on less than $1.90 on a daily basis. In India there is forced child labour, commercial sexual exploitation, force begging, forced into marriage and many more forms of slavery, this would also include domestic work, the construction and sex industries, agriculture, fishing, manufacturing, manual labour, and forced begging. Many men mainly work in manual labour, manufacturing construction and agriculture. Children work in fishing and manufacturing and women work in sex industries, manual labour, force marriage and sex industries. Women in sex industries are locked in rooms and sexually harassed and forced to work as a prostitute. Over 50% of women are married before the legal age of 18. In some instances, girls are forced into marriage and then used as unpaid labourers, local day labourers cost US$140 for a season but a bride can cost only US$100 as a once off payment. The northern state of Haryana has India's most distorted sex ratio that’s 114 males for every 100 females.