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One in three children does not receive the nutrition they need to grow well

2019-11-20T22:04:57.677Z


According to figures from the United Nations Children's Fund, in the last three decades, the state of children around the world has improved, although there are still many challenges in the mother ...


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(CNN Spanish) - The Convention on the Rights of the Child was approved 30 years ago, a document that UNICEF has helped change the lives of children around the world.

In the 2019 report on the celebration of World Children's Day, UNICEF emphasizes the problem of malnutrition, a "growing issue" worldwide.

According to figures from the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, in the last three decades the state of children around the world has had an improvement, since since 1990 the deaths of children under five have been reduced by 50% , malnutrition has been reduced and thousands more people now have access to drinking water, although there are still many challenges in this area.

The UNICEF report gives an overview of the nutritional status of children worldwide, which states that one in three children does not receive the nutrition they need to grow well and 149 million children under the age of five suffer from stunted growth due to poor nutrition.

The report also states that the problem of malnutrition of children must be tackled with an increasingly strong promotion of healthy foods and establish a healthy environment for children. (p. 22).

But as Unicef ​​has pointed out in several reports, not only food is problematic. But also other problems such as lack of access to education, violence and forced marriages.

Some figures on the state of children in the world

1. How many are they?

UNICEF estimated that in 2005 there were 2.2 billion children in the world. The current figure is estimated at about 2000 million children.

2. Violence

By 2019, one in four children lives in countries affected by conflict or disaster. Nearly 31 million children have been forced to move because of violence and conflict: of these, 13 million are refugee children and more than 17 million have had to move in their own countries.

3. Education

262 million children of primary and secondary school age do not attend school, including
75 million in countries affected by conflict, according to UNICEF.

4. Basic sanitation

By 2016, UNICEF said 570 million children did not have basic drinking water at school and more than 620 million did not have access to basic sanitation. The Organization estimated that by 2040 it is estimated that 1 in 4 children live in areas with “a serious limitation of water resources”.

5. Extreme poverty

UNICEF says that one third of all children in the world, (about 665 million) live in households in multidimensional poverty and lack access to services and tend to be affected by discrimination of gender, language, ethnic group or place where they live In addition, according to UNICEF, almost half of the people living in extreme poverty are children and live in households under $ 1.90 a day.

6. Child marriage

650 million girls and women in the world got married before they turned 18.

7. Malnutrition and obesity

The most recent UNICEF report says that at least 1 in 3 children under 5 is undernourished or overweight.

The population of overweight children worldwide increased from 10% to 20% between 2000 and 2016. And in addition, 1 in 2 (about 340 million children) suffer from hidden hunger, or lack of vitamins and other essential nutrients.

Source: cnnespanol

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