Poverty Among Children

The world has achieved significant advances in development in recent years. More than 700 million people continue to live in severe poverty. Children suffer disproportionately. Despite accounting for one-third of the world population, they account for half of the people trying to make ends meet on less than RM5 per day.

Children who grow up in poverty frequently do not have access to the food, sanitation, housing, health care, and education they require to live and flourish. Around 1 billion children worldwide are multidimensionally poor, lacking basic requirements such as nourishment and clean water. COVID-19 has pushed an extra 100 million children into multidimensional poverty.

The implication is catastrophic. Children from poor are twice as likely as their wealthier classmates to die in childhood worldwide. The dangers of poverty and isolation increase for children amid humanitarian situations. Even in the world's richest countries, one in every seven children lives in poverty.

Children who grow up underprivileged suffer from low living conditions, develop fewer skills for the labour field, and earn poorer income as adults, regardless of where they live.

Nonetheless, only a few governments have reduced child poverty as a national priority. Please see below inforgraphics for more information about child poverty,

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