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Children play outside a metal polishing workshop in the Shivnagar Mohalla slum in India.

Child poverty

Children are more likely to live in poverty than adults. They’re also more vulnerable to its effects.

On 6 August 2020, psychologist Olena Davydova (left) meets with a family in Bilokurakyno, Eastern Ukraine.

150 million additional children plunged into poverty due to COVID-19, UNICEF, Save the Children say

New analysis reveals the number of children living in multidimensional poverty – without access to education, health, housing, nutrition, sanitation, or water – has increased by 15 per cent since the start of the pandemic

A young girl resting her head on her hand smiling

Global annual results report 2019: Goal Area 5

Progress, results achieved and lessons from 2019 under Goal Area 5: Every child has an equitable chance in life

Children sit in a boat.

Economic fallout from COVID-19 tightens its grip on children

Children will bear the brunt of COVID-19 long after the pandemic is over

Yana, 12, Lyubov, 10, Arina, 13 and Daniil, 7 months, sit in the living room of their small rented house in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

Universal child benefits critical in reducing poverty, new ODI and UNICEF report finds

As the economic fallout of COVID-19 deepens, investment in social protection systems key to protecting families from catastrophic levels of deprivation and financial hardship

Yana, 12, Lyubov, 10, Arina, 13 and Daniil, 7 months, sit in the living room of their small rented house in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

COVID-19: Number of children living in household poverty to soar by up to 86 million by end of year

New analysis from Save the Children and UNICEF reveals that without urgent action, the number of children living in poor households across low- and middle-income countries could increase by 15 per cent, to reach 672 million

Young Syrian children, who came to Jordan with their family six years ago, received their winter clothing kits from UNICEF and its partner Mateen.

UNICEF's Global social protection programme framework

Learn what child-sensitive social protection is and why they are important for children

Two children nestle beside each other, wrapped in a thick grey blanket inside their family's tent in a refugee camp in Iraq.

Five things you should know about social protection

Nearly two thirds of children are not protected from the lifelong consequences of poverty

Only one third of children covered by social protection: ILO, UNICEF

A new report by UNICEF and the ILO highlights the critical need to extend social protection to all children

Azharul Islam, 45, works with his seven-year-old daughter Aduri on her homework

Millions of the world’s poorest urban children are more likely to die young and less likely to complete primary school than their rural peers—UNICEF

New report demonstrates ‘urban paradox’— some of the poorest children in cities fare worse in well-being, education or health than poorest rural children