COVID-19 is threatening decades of progress towards eliminating preventable childhood deaths the L evels and Trends in Child Mortality 2020 report finds. While under-five deaths were at an all-time low in 2019, totaling 5.2 million, this trend can be halt

There has been great progress in child survival over the past two decades. Despite this great progress, one child or young adolescent died every five seconds in 2018. The majority of these deaths occur before the age of five, and almost half during the fi

Due to the few opportunities for legal movement and migration, many of the children who are move alone are forced to rely on smugglers, putting them at risk for hazardous and exploitative situations. Traffickers and other exploitative persons thrive espec

Adolescents pay a high risk for a chance at a better life. The journey to Europe through the Mediterranean Sea is incredibly dangerous, especially for youth fleeing from Sub-Saharan Africa. A boy with a secondary education, travelling by group through thi

Produced by Unicef, this comprehensive report presents a global data set on migrating and displaced children in today’s world: where they are born, where they move, and some of the dangers they face along the way. Children on the move are at risk of some

As the concluding year of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches and planning for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs or Global Goals) is in full swing, the world’s leading aid agencies are calling for improved evidence-based estimation of

Millennium Development Goal 4 calls for reducing the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. This publication analyzes the global and national progress made towards achieving this goal. Despite stunning progress in various countries

Comprised of representatives from UNICEF, WHO, and the United Nations Population division, the Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) updates child mortality estimates annually. This report prevents the group’s latest estimates of und

This report, focusing exclusively on Africa, provides an in-depth analysis of child demographic trends in Africa and also seeks to raise some key policy questions on the implications of Africa’s child demographics. The Generation 2030 project focuses on c

The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) updates child mortality estimates annually for monitoring progress. This report presents the IGME’s latest estimates of under-five, infant and neonatal mortality and assesses prog

Only four years remain to achieve Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4), which calls for reducing the under-five mortality rate by two thirds between 1990 and 2015.Child mortality is a key indicator not only of child health and nutrition but also of the i