LEARNING INTERRUPTED: Global snapshot of climate-related school disruptions in 2024
Climate shocks are disrupting children’s education, putting their learning and their futures at risk.
Highlights
Climate change is deepening the global learning crisis and threatening
children’s ability to learn. Right now, an estimated two thirds of children
around the world cannot read with comprehension by age 10. Climate
hazards are exacerbating this reality.
Nearly half the world’s children – approximately 1 billion children – live in
countries with extremely high risks of climate and environmental shocks.i
A new UNICEF analysis finds that climate-induced hazards disrupted
schooling for at least 242 million students worldwide in 2024. This is a
conservative estimate due to data limitations and does not account for
the broader, secondary impacts of climate-induced hazards.
