Report

Progress for every child in the SDG era

The situation in 2019

Mother and child bonding, Kaabong Hospital in Uganda.

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Highlights

This report is part of a series of UNICEF reports tracking progress on the child-related indicators in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This 2019 edition revisits the conclusions of Progress for Every Child in the SDG Era, a report released in March 2018, and it reveals the latest assessment on the world’s performance in meeting the 2030 Agenda for Children.

Almost a billion (945 million) children live in countries where the SDGs remain out of reach, and countries are most likely to be off track to meeting progress envisioned by the SDGs.
Many children remain effectively uncounted given the limited coverage of SDG data, but this situation is improving. Between 2018 and 2019, the likelihood of a country having no or insufficient data to assess its trajectory towards a child SDG target has fallen from 62 to 56 per cent.
On average, 75 per cent of child-related SDG indicators in every country either have insufficient data or show insufficient progress to meet global SDG targets by 2030. The report calls for a step change now, both in assessing the situation of children everywhere and using data to target our efforts to reach those at greatest risk of being left behind.

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