New Report: "Child Poverty in the Developing World"
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LONDON, 21 October 2003 - Drawing from the largest, most accurate
survey sample of children ever assembled, a new UNICEF-sponsored
report has found that over one billion children suffer the severe
effects of poverty.
Using a pioneering methodology, the survey measures the extent of
child poverty, in terms not only of income, but of deprivation of
basic human rights such as shelter, food, water, sanitation,
health, education and information. The researchers analysed sur-
vey data on nearly 1.2 million children from 46 countries col-
lected mainly during the late 1990�s.
The data is published in a new UNICEF-commissioned report enti-
tled, "Child Poverty in the Developing World" that was launched
today at the House of Commons in London. The research team in-
cluded Dave Gordon of the Centre for International Poverty Re-
search at the University of Bristol and Peter Townsend of the
London School of Economics.
The results of the study show:
* One child of every three lives in a dwelling with more than
five people per room, or with a mud floor.
* Nearly 20% of the world�s children do not have safe water
sources or have more than a 15-minute walk to water.
* Over 15% of children under five in the developing world are se-
verely malnourished. In South Asia alone, more than 90 million
children go hungry every day.
* 134 million children between the ages of 7 to 18 have never
been to school.
* Girls are more likely to go without schooling than boys. In the
Middle East and North Africa, in particular, girls are three
times more likely than boys to have never attended to school.
Download report as Adobe PDF file (44 pp. 298 kB) at:
http://www.unicef.org/media/files/Child_poverty.pdf
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