Child Well-Being In Rich Countries: A Comparative Overview

In April 2013, UNICEF published an overview on child-well being around the world. The report contains three parts: Part One presents a league table of child well-being in 29 of the world’s advanced economies; Part Two looks at what children say about their own well-being (including a league table of children’s life satisfaction); and Part Three examines changes in child well-being in advanced economies over the first decade of the 2000s, including a look at each country’s progress in educational achievement, teenage birth rates, childhood obesity levels, the prevalence of bullying, and the . . .