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The State of the World’s Children 2019: Children, food and nutrition

An alarmingly high number of children are suffering the consequences of poor diets and a food system that is failing them.  This new report provides the most comprehensive assessment yet of 21st century child malnutrition in all its forms.

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Fighting for Breath: A call to action to stop children dying from pneumonia

A child under 5 dies of pneumonia every 39 seconds. Almost all of these deaths are preventable. Fighting for Breath is a briefing on the state of pneumonia, with an overview of the global death toll. It is also a call to action for governments to strengthen primary health care systems and improve quality of care to adequately diagnose and treat pneumonia as well as deliver preventative vaccines.

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Levels and Trends in Child Mortality

Tremendous progress in child survival has been made over the past three decades. And yet, one child or young adolescent died every five seconds in 2018. The vast majority of these deaths (85 per cent) occur in the first 5 years of life, of which almost half (47 per cent) happen during the first month.

 

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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

4 in 10

children fail to meet minimum learning standards globally

673 million

People who still practised open defecation in 2017

5.6 million

Number of children who died before reaching their fifth birthday

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Child marriage among boys: A global overview of available data

The practice of child marriage has been well-studied among girls, but there has been little information to date about child marriage among boys. This paper presents an analysis of all nationally representative and internationally comparable data on the prevalence of child marriage among boys.

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A World Ready to Learn: Prioritizing quality early childhood education

Despite the proven and lifelong benefits of pre-primary education, half of the pre-primary school-age children in the world today – that is, at least 175 million children –are not enrolled in pre-primary education during these vital years, deepening inequalities and missing a critical investment opportunity.

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Progress for Every Child in the SDG Era - 2019 brochure and country profiles

Progress for Every Child in the SDG Era, a report released in March 2018, assessed the world’s performance to date, focusing on 44 indicators that directly concern the 2030 Agenda’s most vulnerable constituency: children. This brochure & country profiles revisit the conclusions of that report, updated with 2018 data for a 2019 perspective.

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Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies: Taking stock of maternal health

The number of women and girls who die each year due to issues related to pregnancy and childbirth has dropped considerably, yet more than 800 women die every day from pregnancy-related complications and many more mothers experience injuries or other debilitating outcomes.

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