Childhood

Where It's Hardest To Be A Child

Conflict, poverty and discrimination are threatening childhoods all over the world. According to the second annual End of Childhood Report released by advocacy organization Save the Children, over half of children worldwide, 1.2 billion in total, are under threat from those factors.

While the situation improved in 95 out of 175 countries in the report, the risk of an early end to childhood is still present across much of the world. The following infographic shows the ten countries where children are most and least at risk. Singapore and Slovenia are the least threatened countries, along with most of Northwest Europe. The most threatened countries are all in Africa with Niger bottom-ranked in the report.

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This chart shows the index scores of countries where childhood is most and least threatened in 2018

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Countries with the highest rate of child vulnerability in 2021
Number of children living within 50km of a conflict incident worldwide in 2022, by country (in 1,000s)
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Leading countries with highest Children's Climate Risk Index as of 2021
Children at risk of poverty or social exclusion in Central and Eastern European countries in 2023
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Proportion of children living in poverty worldwide in 2023, by selected country
Number of child deaths per 1,000 live births worldwide in 2023, by country

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