This report from UNICEF assesses the world’s performance towards meeting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to date, focusing on 44 indicators that directly concern 2030’s most important constituency: children. The indicators are clustered into five dimensions of children’s rights: survive and thrive, learning, protection, environment, and fair chance. The indicators include birth registration, violence against children, poverty and social protection coverage, and more. The report also makes note of the SDGs’ guiding principle to "leave no one behind," calling for enhanced data quality and collection practices, particularly for the world's most vulnerable children, including those living in institutions or on the streets. The report provides examples of data initiatives that make the most of often limited resources to advance data collection, identifying four common factors that lie behind the successes.
In addition to analysing all countries together in each thematic chapter, this report is accompanied by a collection of 202 country profiles. Each profile provides a stocktaking of the country’s performance against the 44 child-related SDG indicators. These country profiles can be found here.
