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The State of the World’s Children 2024
November 25 , 2024
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- The UNICEF released the State of the World’s Children 2024 (SOWC-2024) report.
- The report examines the impact of three long-term global forces - demographic shifts, climate and environmental crises, and frontier technologies.
- Since 2022, 400 million students around the world have experienced the school closures due to extreme weather.
- By the 2050s, the global child population is projected to stabilize at around 2.3 billion.
- India, China, Nigeria and Pakistan are expected to account for more than a third of the world’s child population by 2050.
- India will have approximately 350 million children, despite a decline of 106 million compared to today.
- Nearly 60 per cent of children globally are projected to live in urban settings in the 2050s, up from 44 per cent in the 2000s.
- Newborn survival rates globally will increase by nearly 4 percentage points from the 2000s to over 98 per cent.
- The probability of a child surviving to the age of 5 rises by 1 percentage point from the 2000s to 99.5 per cent.
- Life expectancy increases from 70 years for girls and 66 for boys born in the 2000s, to 81 years and 76, respectively.
- By the 2050s, significantly more children are projected to be exposed to extreme climate hazards compared with those in the 2000s.
- In 2024, over 95 per cent of people in high-income countries are connected to the internet, compared to nearly 26 per cent in low-income countries.
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