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UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Group: Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates, 2019 edition

Good nutrition allows children to survive, grow, develop, learn, play, participate and contribute while malnutrition robs children of their futures and leaves young lives hanging in the balance.

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UNICEF deploys open data tools & standards

‘Open data’ refers to data that are freely available without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. Learn about what UNICEF is doing to provide globally accessible data for use by all.

 

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WHO/UNICEF report: WASH in Health Care Facilities

No one goes to a health care facility to get sick. People go to get better, to deliver babies, to get vaccinated. Yet, hundreds of millions of people face an increased risk of infection by seeking care in health facilities that lack basic necessities, including water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and health care waste services.

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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  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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Global Nutrition Report 2018 - Shining a light to spur action on nutrition

The figures are alarming. Malnutrition is responsible for more ill-health than any other cause and while progress on tackling malnutrition has been made, it is simply not good enough. No country is on course to meet all nine global malnutrition targets.

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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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