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Progress for Every Child in the SDG Era

UNICEF’s first comprehensive assessment on progress towards achieving the global SDG targets for children. The report tracks 44 child-relevant SDG indicators, identifying areas where greater efforts are needed and revealing the alarming inadequacies of data to measure progress.

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Levels and Trends in Child Mortality

An estimated 6.3 million children under 15 years of age died in 2017, or 1 every 5 seconds, according to the new report. The vast majority of these deaths – 5.4 million – occur in the first five years of life and most could have been prevented. Most children under 5 die from preventable or treatable causes like complications during birth, pneumonia, diarrhoea, neonatal sepsis and malaria.

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The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018

New research shows that the number of hungry people in the world is growing, reaching 821 million in 2017 or one in every nine people. The report summarizes the most recent trends in hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms with an analysis on wasting, and an emphasis on the extent to which climate variability undermines progress in these areas.

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Children and the Sustainable Development Goals

Children and the Sustainable Development Goals

We believe that consistent, credible data about children’s situations are critical to the improvement of their lives – and indispensable to realizing the rights of every child.

1 in 4

Births of the global population of children under five have never been registered

3 in 4

Children aged 2 to 4 worldwide experience violent discipline by their caregivers on a regular basis

61 million

Number of children of primary school age out of school in 2015

892 million

People who still practised open defecation in 2015

5.6 million

Number of children who died before reaching their fifth birthday

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SDG global indicators related to children

A recently released series of briefing notes provide detailed information on child-related global SDG indicators for which UNICEF has been identified as custodian, co-custodian, or supporting agency for the purposes of global reporting.

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New data on children and women in DPR Korea

New data offering a snapshot into the lives of children and women in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea shows slight improvements but persistent challenges. The data comes from a Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) that was conducted in 2017.

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Women: At the heart of the HIV response for children

The new report highlights the sobering fact that, contrary to popular opinion, the AIDS crisis is far from over. Despite considerable progress made over the last decade, the disease continues to thrive among the marginalized and the powerless, striking people of all ages, including babies, young children and particularly adolescents.

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Change the Game: An agenda for action on childhood tuberculosis

Every day, nearly 700 children die from tuberculosis (TB), 80% of those before reaching their fifth birthday. Many are never diagnosed. This brochure presents key facts and figures about childhood TB  as well as an agenda to end the disease in children worldwide.

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