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UNICEF’s Frontier Data Network is a strategic initiative designed to promote innovation and capacity building in data science, helping us make data-driven decisions that truly benefit children. The State of the World’s Children 2023: Statistical tables. Global, regional and country-level data on key indicators of adolescent well-being ...
While the 2023 edition of the UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Group Joint Malnutrition Estimates shows that stunting prevalence has been declining since the year 2000, more than one in five – 148.1 million children under 5 –were stunted in 2022, and at least 45.0 million suffered from wasting at any given point of time in the year.
MICS Since its inception in 1995, the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, known as MICS, has become the largest source of…
Of the estimated 40.0 million [confidence bounds: 36.0-44.8 million] people living with HIV worldwide in 2023, 2.38 million [1.83-2.97 million] were children aged 0-19. Each day in 2023, approximately 685 children became infected with HIV and approximately 250 children died from AIDS related causes, mostly due to inadequate access to HIV prevention, care and treatment services. As of 2023 ...
Diarrhoea is a leading killer of children, accounting for approximately 9 per cent of all deaths among children under age 5 worldwide in 2021. This translates to over 1,200 young children dying each day, or about 444,000 children a year, despite the availability of a simple treatment solution. Read more. diarrhoea occur among children less than ...
Maternal mortality declined by 34 per cent between 2000 and 2020 Maternal mortality refers to deaths due to complications from pregnancy or childbirth. From 2000 to 2020, the global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) declined by 34 per cent – from 339 deaths to 223 deaths per 100,000 live births, according to UN inter-agency estimates. This translates into an average annual rate of reduction of ...
Of the 4.9 million under-five deaths in 2022, 2.3 million occurred during the first month of life and 2.6 million children died between the ages of 1 and 59 months. The lives of an additional 2.1 million children, adolescents and youth ages 5–24 were also cut tragically short that year. Between 2000 and 2022, the world lost 221 million ...
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development puts the principles of equality and non-discrimination at its heart, with a commitment to leave no one behind and reach those furthest behind first. Centring children in our efforts to drive sustainable development is a human rights imperative with the power to break harmful cycles of poverty and ...
For a full picture of children’s school participation, UNICEF uses two sources of data: enrolment data, which are based on administrative records, and attendance data from household surveys. In half of all countries, data on primary and secondary education come from more than one source.
Securing access for all would go a long way in reducing illness and death, especially among children. “Safely managed” drinking water services represent an ambitious new rung on the ladder used to track progress on drinking water. Since 2015, over 687 million people have gained access to safely managed services. In 2022, 5.82 billion people used safely managed services and a further 1.5 ...