Children in der 18 years of age

Children suffer poverty differently from adults. Their needs, in order to survive and thrive are different, their dreams and hopes are different, and their necessities ought to be supported and taken care of by adults, not by themselves. Children are not supposed to earn a living for themselves. Thus, when measuring child poverty, it is important to use a direct multidimensional measurement.
Each dimension is a right constitutive of poverty (i.e. clothing, education, health, housing, information, nutrition, play, sanitation, and water). Also, the measurement of child poverty is based on the individual experience of poverty by children (not just a disaggregation of household poverty which would hide and/or distort the situation and evolution of child poverty). Due to data limitations, only the following dimensions were estimated: education, health, housing, nutrition, sanitation, and water.
While countries may estimate child poverty using different indicators (circumscribed to constitutive rights, i.e. not including lack of love, neglect, or other problems or rights violations), the estimates presented here are done using the same dimensions, the same indicators, and the same thresholds across countries (for global comparison). Thus, they are based on homogenous (i.e. internationally comparable) standards and they will likely differ from national multidimensional child poverty estimates (if available)..
For each indicator there are severe and moderate thresholds to determine deprivation. In this case, the severe ones have been used.
Moreover, this indicator measures (using homogenous standards and severe thresholds) how many children suffer exactly four deprivations.