NEW YORK: The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has said that Sixty-nine million children, or one in five live in poverty in the world’s 40 wealthy nations.
The disclosure has been made by the UN organization in a report on Tuesday. The report strongly criticized Britain and France for their particularly bad standings.
That’s despite a decline in child poverty rates from 2012 to 2014 and 2019 to 2021, by about eight percent in the forty European Union and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) wealthy states evaluated.
The report said that most of the children may grow up without sufficient nutritious food, school, clothes, stated Bo Viktor Nylund of UNICEF Innocenti, highlighting the impact of struggles on young people’s mental and physical health.
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The report stressed for immediate action to ensure children’s well-being and for political will among the nation surveyed. It insisted that a country’s income did not automatically lift its kids out of poverty.
Since 2012, the biggest setbacks have been seen in some of the wealthy nations.
The UK witnessed a 19.6 percent increase in child poverty while France’s rate went up 10.4 percent.
In the US, the number of poor children has declined by 6.7 percent, but more than one child in four still lives in poverty.
Underlining the link between child poverty and economic inequality, the report also underscores the greater risk of poverty for children from single-parent families and minority backgrounds.
