Children get worse through the pandemic

Austria's children and young people need to catch up in the area of mental and physical health. There is also a lot to be done in the education system in terms of equal opportunities. This is evident from the analysis by UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight. The authors of the study investigated the well-being of children in 39 countries – Austria ranks 12th. Relatively well, the Alpine Republic cuts off in the skills of ch…

The pandemic has exposed some trends related to children, such as weak school performances, increased risk of overcapacity and obesity and, in general, a lower level of satisfaction in the lives of FLORENA/NEW YORK, 14 May 2025 – In many of the world’s richest countries, an important decline has occurred among children at [...]

The well-being of children in the richest countries of the world has suffered "a sharp deterioration" following the pandemic from Covid-19 with "a sharp decline in school performance, mental well-being and physical health." This is what emerges from the Report Card 19 of Unicef entitled 'The well-being of girls, children and adolescents in an unpredictable world', which compares the data of 2018 and 2022 in 43 OECD and EU countries. The Netherla…

According to Unicef there is a decline in life satisfaction and school achievements among children in Germany.

Dutch children are in first place in terms of well-being in a ranking drawn up by UNICEF. The United Nations children's rights organization compared 43 countries with each other. Although no country scored better than the Netherlands, UNICEF does have some critical comments. The corona pandemic, among other things, caused a deterioration in various areas.