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Bookmark or Share- Child poverty | UNICEFAn estimated 333 million children live in extreme poverty. Children who grow up impoverished often lack the food, sanitation, shelter, health care and education they need to survive and thrive. Across the world, about 1 billion children are "multidimensionally" poor, meaning they lack necessities as basic as nutritious food or clean water.
- UNICEF and Child Poverty | UNICEF USAAn estimated 333 million children globally – or 1 in 6 – live in extreme poverty. While that figure represents progress — the extreme child poverty rate shrunk from 20.7 percent in 2013 to 15.9 percent in 2022 — it's about 30 million children short of what had been projected before the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Over 330 million children worldwide living in extreme povertyThe findings show that 333 million children worldwide are living in extreme poverty – a decrease of almost 50 million over the course of the past decade. However, the report’s authors say that...
- 1 in 6 children lives in extreme poverty, World Bank-UNICEF ...Children are more than twice as likely to be extremely poor as adults (17.5 percent of children vs. 7.9 percent of adults). The youngest children are the worst off – nearly 20 percent of all children below the age of 5 in the developing world live in extremely poor households.
- Child Poverty Fell to Record Low 5.2% in 2021 - Census.govChild poverty, calculated by the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), fell to its lowest recorded level in 2021, declining 46% from 9.7% in 2020 to 5.2% in 2021, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released today.
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