Classes are mostly huge - between 60 and 100 pupils per teacher in Equatorial Guinea. According to more recent news from the Equatorial Guinean opposition, the current crisis in the educational sector effects more than 80 percent of the population, living in poverty and without the means to send their children to foreign boarding schools. Equatorial Guinea is also reported to one of the destinations for regional child trafficking. Equatorial Guinea has a long history of forced labour, both domestic and on plantations, going continuously back to early colonial times. Then, there is common child labour, practiced by a majority of the country's poor families.
Underage youth perform both family farm work and street vending on a wide scale.
This can of course against be seen in the context of the low school enrollment. In most ways, Equatorial Guinea is not worse off then many other African nations. The difference is, however, that while the country's economy is booming, to the benefit of the small ruling class, children's situation is actually growing worse. Texts and graphics may be reproduced freely, under the condition that their origin is clearly referred to, see Conditions .