Eye-Opening Statistics About Children Around the World

Orphans

  • An estimated 153 million children worldwide are orphans (UNICEF).

Child Labor

  • Worldwide, there are 168 million child laborers, accounting for almost 11% of children (ILO).
  • In the world’s poorest countries, around 1 in 4 children are engaged in child labor (UNICEF).

Education

  • 263 million children and youth are out of school (UNESCO).
  • An estimated 61 million primary-school-age children are out of school; 53% of them are girls (UNICEF).

Health

  • There are 69 million children worldwide who suffer from malnutrition (World Bank)
  • In 2017, 75% of malnourished children lived in less developed regions (WHO).
  • Nearly half of all deaths in children under the age of 5 can be attributed to undernutrition, resulting in the unnecessary loss of about 3 million young lives a year (UNICEF).
  • 66 million primary-school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone (WHO).​

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