Child well-being
UNICEF’S commitment to data for children is guided by the fact that the SDGs impact every aspect of a child’s well-being. Our work is structured around 5 overarching areas of well-being for every child which are grounded in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
This human rights-based approach pursues a vision of realizing the rights of every child, especially the most disadvantaged and responds to the call to “leave no child behind”, so that the rights of every child, everywhere, will be fulfilled.
Share of countries assessed on progress towards global SDG targets, averaged across indicators grouped into five dimensions of children’s rights
Survive+thrive
Learning
Protection
Environment
Fair chance
- No data
- Insufficient trend data
- Acceleration needed
- On track
- Target met
Child-related SDG indicators
The 2030 Agenda includes 17 Global Goals addressing the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. Attached to the Goals are 169 concrete targets measured by 232 specific indicators.
To chart and track how ambitious and how realistic country targets are UNICEF created quantifiable country-level benchmarks for child-related indicators for which data are available to measure and monitor numerous child rights on a common scale.
Provided below is a stocktaking of the country’s performance against the 45 child-related SDG indicators, grouping the results into five areas of child well-being to provide an overall assessment of how children are faring. The countries are assessed using global and national targets. The rankings provide valuable insights into both historic progress – recognizing the results delivered by countries in the recent past – as well as how much additional effort might be required to achieve the child-related SDG targets. This approach provides a framework to assess ambition as well as the scale of action needed to realize it.
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Historic progress
- Very weak
- Weak
- Average
- Strong
- Very strong
- No trend data available
- No data
Effort needed to hit relative target
- Target met
- Very low effort
- Low effort
- Average effort
- High effort
- Very high effort
- Above recorded history
- No trend data available
- No data
- No target
Note: This dashboard uses internationally comparable data from the global databases held on behalf of the international community by UNICEF and other United Nations agencies. While UNICEF is committed to the localization of SDG targets, global rather than national targets are used to gauge progress on the SDG indicators. To read more about how the trajectories towards the global targets are assessed please read the methodology note.
Population overview
Understanding of a country’s population levels, trends and projections constitutes an essential ingredient in strategic planning, policy development and program implementation for addressing global challenges and emerging issues.
Total population: 23,317,145 (2023 projections)
Male
Female
Source: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects 2019
Related SDG resources
In 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for a safer, cleaner and more prosperous world by 2030. Now it’s up to all of us to join forces to address the most pressing global challenges and turn goals into action.
To accelerate progress towards the SDGs for every child, UNICEF embraces a “3As” approach: raising awareness, taking action and holding decision makers accountable for progress
The SDGs are universal in scope, and their call to leave no one behind puts the world’s most vulnerable and marginalized people – including children – at the top of the agenda.
UNICEF works with governments, partners and other UN agencies to help countries ensure the goals deliver results for and with every child – now and for generations to come.
The Division for Sustainable Development Goals at UN-DESA acts as the Secretariat for the SDGs, providing substantive support and capacity-building for the goals and their related thematic issues, including water, energy, climate, and more.
