Country Care Snapshots

Children Living Without Biological Parents
Parental Survivorship
Living in Kinship Care
Living With a Non-Relative
Living with Grandparent
Living With Other Relative
Child Head of Household
Living With Spouse
Living With Sibling
Living with Adoptive/Foster/Step Parent
Servant (Live-In)
Inconsistent/Don’t Know/Missing
Name Armenia Bulgaria Cambodia Colombia Costa Rica Ethiopia Gabon Ghana Guatemala Haiti
Year
Both Parents Alive
75 %
DHS 2015-2016
84 %
BCN Analysis of 2014 DHS Data
84 %
DHS 2015
80 %
MICS 2018
78 %
DHS 2016
77 %
MICS 2017-2018
77 %
BCN Analysis of 2014-2105 DHS Data
74 %
DHS 2016-2017
One Parent Dead
8 %
DHS 2015-2016
10 %
BCN Analysis of 2014 DHS Data
14 %
DHS 2015
17.5 %
MICS 2018
18 %
DHS 2016
18 %
MICS 2017-2018
19 %
BCN Analysis of 2014-2105 DHS Data
21 %
DHS 2016-2017
Both Parents Dead
8 %
DHS 2015-2016
7 %
BCN Analysis of 2014 DHS Data
2 %
DHS 2015
2.5 %
MICS 2018
4 %
DHS 2016
5 %
MICS 2017-2018
4 %
BCN Analysis of 2014-2105 DHS Data
5 %
DHS 2016-2017
Living in Kinship Care
0.5 %
Agency for Social Assistance, 2019
97 %
BCN Analysis of 2014 DHS Data
90.9 %
MICS 2018
93.8 %
MICS 2017-2018
Living With a Non-Relative
3 %
BCN Analysis of 2014 DHS Data
3.9 %
MICS 2018
16.1 %
DHS 2019-21
2 %
MICS 2017-2018
Living with Grandparent
72.7 %
BCN Analysis of 2014 DHS Data
58.7 %
MICS 2018
56.1 %
MICS 2017-2018
Living with Other Relative
16 %
BCN Analysis of 2014 DHS Data
20.1 %
MICS 2018
30.7 %
MICS 2017-2018
Child Head of Household
0.7 %
MICS 2018
0.1 %
MICS 2017-2018
Living with Spouse
1 %
BCN Analysis of 2014 DHS Data
1.9 %
MICS 2018
0.2 %
MICS 2017-2018
Living with Sibling
3 %
BCN Analysis of 2014 DHS Data
3.3 %
MICS 2018
3.6 %
MICS 2017-2018
Living with Adoptive/Foster/Step Parent
3 %
BCN Analysis of 2014 DHS Data
7 %
MICS 2018
3.2 %
MICS 2017-2018
Servant (Live-In)
1.4%
MICS 2017-2018
Inconsistent/Don’t Know/Missing
0 %
BCN Analysis of 2014 DHS Data
4.7 %
2.7 %
MICS 2017-2018