One is Too Many: Ending Child Deaths from Pneumonia and Diarrhoea
For most children around the world, pneumonia and diarrhoea are easily prevented and managed illnesses with simple and effective interventions and rarely life threatening. However, not all children are so fortunate.
A New Way to Measure Child Functioning and Disability
An innovative survey tool can provide better and more comparable data on children with disabilities.
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1 MILLION CHILDREN DIE ON THEIR DAY OF BIRTH
1 million, or almost one in six of all under-five deaths, happen in the first 24 hours.
Read More1 IN 3 ADOLESCENT GIRLS HAVE BEEN THE VICTIM OF PARTNER VIOLENCE
1 in 3 adolescent girls aged 15 to 19 worldwide (84 million) have been the victims of violence committed by their husbands or partners.
Read MoreDRIVING CHANGE FOR CHILDREN THROUGH DATA
Revealing disparities, advancing children's rights.
UNICEF has learned through experience that problems that go unmeasured often go unsolved. 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.
Data continue to support advocacy and action on behalf of the world’s 2.2 billion children, providing governments with facts on which to base decisions and actions to improve children’s lives. And new ways of collecting and using data will help target investments and interventions to reach the most vulnerable children.
Data do not, of themselves, change the world. They make change possible – by identifying needs, supporting advocacy, and gauging progress.
Useful links
- CME Info - A database containing the latest child mortality estimates based on the research of the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation
- Data for Children strategic framework and (internal) site
- UN Data Revolution - The UN Secretary General's Independent Expert Advisory Group on a Data Revolution for Sustainable Development