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Child Wellbeing in an Unpredictable World – UNICEF
May 27 , 2025
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- The report, titled Report Card 19: Child Wellbeing in an Unpredictable World, has compared data from 2018 and 2022.
- It is offering a perspective on how the COVID-19 pandemic and global shutdowns affected children in 43 OECD and EU countries.
- The top three countries are the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Denmark and France and they also lead on mental health, physical health and skills.
- Across the 43 countries, an estimated 8 million 15-year-olds are not functionally literate and numerate.
- Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia rank high for mental health but rank in the lowest third for physical health.
- Japan, the Republic of Korea and Slovenia are in the top third rank for skills, but in the bottom third rank for mental health.
- Czechia and Iceland rank high for physical health but rank low for both mental health and skills.
- Children’s life satisfaction declining substantially in 14 of 32 countries.
- Levels of overweight increased substantially in 14 out of 43 countries with available data, continuing a long-term trend.
- Between 2018 and 2022, suicide rates among adolescents fell in 18 countries but increased in 17 countries.
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