Nigeria

Demographic Data

  • Total Population: 173,620,000
  • Population under 15: 46%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 52.5 years
  • Human Development Index: 152 out of 187
  • World Bank Status: Lower Middle Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 3.2%
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.6 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 19%
  • Early Marriage (% of children married by 18 years): 49%

Sources: World Bank, UNDP, UNAIDS, DHS 2013

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ICB - Udayan Care,

The next issue of the Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond journal will be published in September. The new issue will address the underlying psychological conditions of caregivers amid pandemic outbreak, their strategies to deal with it and their recommendations that policy makers can take cognisance of.

Join a webinar to discuss these and other issues raised in the latest issue on September 17 from 5.00 - 6.30 pm.

Sara Bardhan and Neymat Chadha - The Wire, India,

The second wave of COVID-19 ruptured families across India. Despite widespread media coverage, the conversation overlooked a demographic worst affected by it, namely children.

Kahindo Sifa Bahati - Thomson Reuters Foundation,

Hundreds of children orphaned by Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been driven to work amid trauma, discrimination and fear around the disease

DGD on Children's Rights and Alternative Care,

DGD 2021 Graphic: Working Group 3

DGD on Children's Rights and Alternative Care,

DGD 2021 Graphic: Working Group 2

DGD on Children's Rights and Alternative Care,

DGD 2021 Graphic: Working Group 1

DGD on Children's Rights and Alternative Care,

DGD 2021 Graphic: Opening Plenary

UN Committee on the Rights of the Child,

This report is about what children and young people told us about their care and what they want to change. This report is for a meeting that happened in September 2021. The meeting was about care for children who do not live with their parents. People from around the world were at the meeting.

Ce document d'information a pour objectif de synthétiser et de présenter les données probantes communiquées dans les contributions soumises au Comité dans le cadre de la procédure de concertation publique (voir le point 1.3 ci-dessous pour plus de

The purpose of this background document is to synthesize and present evidence shared in the submissions received by the Committee through the public consultation process of the