UNICEF released the State of the
World's Children 2016 Report (A
fair chance for every child) @ India
in the report
Quick Digest
What:
Released by UNICEF
When:
28 June 2016
The
United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on 28 June 2016 released the
State of the World’s Children 2016 report.
The
data in the report show that, unless the pace of progress to reach them is
accelerated, the futures of millions of disadvantaged and vulnerable children
will be jeopardized.
Key
highlights of the State of the World's Children 2016 report
•
The report
mentions that unless the world focuses more on the plight of its most
disadvantaged children, by 2030:
Almost
70 million children may die before reaching their fifth birthdays.
Children
in sub-Saharan Africa will be 10 times more likely to die before their fifth
birthdays than children in high-income countries.
Nine
out of 10 children living in extreme poverty will live in sub-Saharan Africa.
More
than 60 million primary school-aged children will be out of school.
Some
750 million women will have been married as children.
•
The report also
indicates that significant progress has been made in saving children’s lives,
getting children into school and lifting people out of poverty.
•
Global under-five
mortality rates have been more than halved since 1990.
•
Boys and girls
attend primary school in equal numbers in 129 countries.
•
The number of
people living in extreme poverty worldwide is almost half what it was in the
1990s.
•
The number of children
who do not attend school has increased since 2011. A significant proportion of
those who do go to school are not learning.
•
About 124
million children today do not go to primary and lower-secondary school. Almost
2 in 5, who do finish primary school, have not learned how to read, write or do
simple arithmetic.
•
The report also
points that investing in the most vulnerable children can yield immediate and
long-term benefits. For example, cash transfers have been shown to help
children stay in school longer and advance to higher levels of education.
•
For each
additional year of schooling completed, on average, by young adults in a
country, country’s poverty rates fall by 9 per cent.
India
in the report
•
The report
states that five countries will account for more than half of the global burden
of under-five deaths. These countries are India (17 per cent), Nigeria (15 per
cent), Pakistan (8 per cent), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (7 per cent)
and Angola (5 per cent).
•
The average
annual rate of reduction in neonatal mortality required for India to reach the
target is almost double the current level.
•
In India, being
born into the poorest households carries a learning ‘penalty’ relative to
children from the richest households. The penalty widens between ages 7 and 11,
reaching a 19 per cent gap in students’ ability to subtract.
•
By age 11 in
India, girls and boys who come from the richest homes and have educated parents
enjoy a huge academic advantage over other children.
Link to Download | http://www.unicef.org/lac/20160628_UNICEF_SOWC_2016_ENG.pdf
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