US EditionUNICEF: One in five children in low and middle-income countries lack most basic services
- This year, UNICEF's State of the World's Children 2025 finds more than 1 in 5 children in low- and middle-income countries — or 417 million — are severely deprived in at least two vital areas.
- Driven by conflict and climate pressures, conflict, climate and environmental crises alongside Official Development Assistance cuts and donor governments scaling back foreign assistance risk deepening deprivation in low- and middle-income countries.
- Survey data from over 130 low- and middle-income countries indicate 118 million children face three or more deprivations, 17 million face four or more, with sanitation deprivation at 65 per cent in low-income countries and nearly 90 per cent in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
- Catherine Russell warned, `Too many children were already deprived of their basic needs, even before the global funding crisis threatened to make things far worse.` UNICEF estimates show aid cuts could leave six million more children out of school next year.
- Providing social protection programmes, including cash support to families, is effective, with Tanzania cutting child poverty by 46 points and Slovenia reducing it by over a quarter.
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UNICEF: One in five children in low and middle-income countries lack most basic services
On World Children's Day, Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome Cécile Aptel, Author and Deputy Director of UNICEF’s Global Office of Research and Forecasting. UNICEF is offering a sobering reminder: national and global policies too often leave the world's most vulnerable in the shadows. In a world of progress and innovation, 417 million children in low- and middle-income countries are still denied the most basic necessities: clean water, healthcare…
Almost one in five children in the world still live in extreme poverty. And UNICEF warns: If development aid is further reduced, this could have drastic consequences for many boys and girls.
According to UN Children's Fund Unicef, more than 400 million children in the world live in extreme poverty.
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