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Poverty

Children play outside a metal polishing workshop in the Shivnagar Mohalla slum in India.
Programme
18 November 2019
Child poverty
Children are more likely to live in poverty than adults. They’re also more vulnerable to its effects.
Document
15 March 2023
Leveraging Nutrition and Social Protection Programming

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Leveraging Nutrition and Social Protection Programming (PDF, 779 KB)
Ukraine. A woman holds her young daughter in eastern Ukraine.
Press release
16 October 2022
Child poverty across eastern Europe and Central Asia soars by 19 per cent, as Ukraine war and rising inflation drive four million children into poverty - UNICEF
On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, UNICEF warns that the ripple effects of the increase in child poverty could result in a steep rise in school dropouts and infant mortality
Children at the playground of the Noma school, in Maradi, in the South of Niger.
Document
30 June 2022
UNICEF’s Commitment to Ending Child Poverty
For more than 15 years UNICEF has been at the forefront of measuring, monitoring and addressing child poverty.

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Child poverty glossy (PDF, 9 MB)
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Report
03 June 2022
Global Annual Results Report 2021: Goal area 5
Progress, results achieved and lessons from 2021: ensuring that every child has an equitable chance in life.

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An 18-month-old girl from Sao Tomé e Principe smiling
Document
22 March 2022
A guide to monetary poverty analysis
Informing policies and programmes to address child poverty

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A parent teaching his child
Report
09 March 2022
The Impact of COVID-19 on the welfare of households
An overview based on High Frequency Phone Surveys

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Nazriadi and Rukyah get ready to take their children to school in front of their home in Jineng Village, East Lombok, Indonesia, on 4 December 2020. Nazriadi and Rukyah receive cash-based assistance (CBA) from UNICEF, which they use to pay for costs related to their children’s education.
Press release
09 March 2022
Two thirds of households with children have lost income during pandemic
UNICEF-World Bank report finds that the lost earnings have left adults in 1 in 4 households with children going a day or more without food
Kristina Petrovic, a single mother of two young children in Serbia, struggles to provide for her family, especially without health insurance.
Blog post
21 December 2021
Ending child poverty is a policy choice
Netflix’s hit show "Maid" is the reality for hundreds of millions of children and their families around the world
Twenty-six year old Guatemalan mother Maria is feeding crushed bananas to her daughter Mariela
Press release
08 December 2021
COVID-19 ‘biggest global crisis for children in our 75-year history’ – UNICEF
On its 75th anniversary, UNICEF warns that COVID-19 is rolling back virtually every measure of progress for children, including a staggering 100 million more children plunged into poverty