CHILD POVERTY REPORTS
Country and regional reports measuring child poverty in all its dimensions, produced by Coalition members and partners worldwide
Child Poverty Reports
Eastern and Southern Africa
Angola: A Multidimensional Analysis of Child Poverty in Angola 2018
Botswana: Child Poverty in Botswana: Updating the National Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis 2021
Botswana: Child Poverty in Botswana: A MODA Analysis 2015
Burundi: Multidimensional and monetary poverty among children in Burundi 2022 (Full Report in English and French, Synthesis Note in English and French, Policy Note on the measurement of SDG 1 in English and French)
Burundi: Secondary Analysis of Data from the Burundi Demographic and Health Survey (in French) 2019
Burundi: Third Demographic and Health Survey in Burundi 2017
Burundi: Child Poverty in Burundi (in French) 2017
Comoros: Child Poverty in Comoros (in French) 2019
Ethiopia: National Situation Analysis of Children and Women in Ethiopia 2019
Ethiopia: Ethiopia Longitudinal Research with the Children of the Millennium 2019
Ethiopia: Multi-dimensional Child Deprivation in Ethiopia 2019
Ethiopia: Multidimensional Child Deprivation in Ethiopia 2018
Ethiopia: Child Well-being in Ethiopia 2015
Eswatini: Multidimensional Child Poverty Analysis in the Kingdom of Eswatini 2025
Eswatini: Multidimensional Child Poverty in the Kingdom of Eswatini 2019
Eswatini: Child Poverty and Disparities in Swaziland 2009
Kenya: Child Poverty in Kenya 2017
Lesotho: Child Poverty in Lesotho 2021
Lesotho: Child Poverty in Lesotho 2018
Lesotho: Child Poverty in Lesotho 2011
Madagascar: The multiple deprivations of children in Madagascar 2020
Madagascar: Les privations multiples des enfants a Madagascar 2020
Malawi: Child Poverty in Malawi 2018
Malawi: Child Poverty in Malawi 2016
Mozambique: Multidimensional Child Poverty in Mozambique (2014/15–2022) 2025
Mozambique: Multidimensional Child Poverty in Mozambique 2020
Mozambique: Child Poverty In Mozambique – Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis 2019
Mozambique: Child Poverty and Disparities in Mozambique 2011
Namibia: Namibia Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Report 2021
Namibia: Young people in Namibia 2014
Namibia: Child Poverty in Namibia 2012
Rwanda: Multidimensional Child Poverty in Rwanda (MODA) Report 2022
Rwanda: Multidimensional Child Poverty in Rwanda 2018
Somalia: Analysis of Multi-Dimensional Child Poverty (MDCP) in Somalia using Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis (MODA) 2022
Somalia: Youth and child poverty in Somalia 2018
Somalia: Somali Poverty Profile 2017
South Africa: Child Poverty in South Africa 2020
South Africa: South Africa Child Gauge 2018
Tanzania: The State of Mainland Tanzania's Children - Evidence from the Mainland Household Budget Surveys (2007-2018) 2024
Tanzania: The State of Zanzibar’s Children: Evidence from the Zanzibar Household Budget Surveys (2010-2020) 2022
Tanzania: Child Poverty In Tanzania 2019
Tanzania: Beyond the Numbers Perceptions and Dynamics of Child Poverty in a Rapidly Urbanizing Tanzania Mainland 2018
Tanzania: Child Poverty in Tanzania 2016
Uganda: What Works for Africa’s Poorest Children: From Measurement to Action 2020
Uganda: Multidimensional Poverty Profile 2020
Uganda: Child Poverty and Deprivation in Refugee-Hosting Areas 2018
Uganda: Uganda Poverty Maps 2017
Uganda: Situation Analysis of Child Poverty and Deprivation in Uganda 2014
Zambia: Child Poverty Report 2023 2024
Zambia: Child Poverty in Zambia 2018
Zimbabwe: MODA final report 2021
Zimbabwe: Child Poverty in Zimbabwe 2016
Latin America and Caribbean
Argentina: Pobreza monetaria y privaciones no monetarias en niñas, niños y adolescentes en Argentina Serie 2011-2025 (in Spanish) 2025
Argentina: Pobreza monetaria y privaciones vinculadas a derechos en niñas y niños (in Spanish) 2024
Argentina: Capacidad de protección de las políticas de transferencias de ingresos (in Spanish) 2024
Argentina: Pobreza monetaria y privaciones no monetarias en niñas, niños y adolescentes en Argentina (in Spanish) 2023
Argentina: Pobreza monetaria y privaciones no monetarias en Argentina (in Spanish) 2021
Argentina: La pobreza monetaria en la niñez y la adolescencia en Argentina (in Spanish) 2017
Argentina: Bienestar y pobreza en niñas, niños y adolescentes en Argentina (in Spanish) 2016
Belize: Multidimensional Poverty in Belize 2022
Bolivia: Bolivia: Pobreza y Disparidades en la infanicia (in Spanish) 2007
Brazil: Pobreza Multidimensional na Infância e Adolescência no Brasil – 2017 a 2023 (in Portuguese) 2025
Brazil: Multiple Dimensions of Child Poverty 2023
Brazil: Children in Monetary Poverty in Brazil: Impacts of the pandemic on the income of families with children and adolescents (in English) 2022
Brazil: Pobreza Infantil Monetária no Brasil – Impactos da pandemia na renda de famílias com crianças e adolescentes (in Portuguese) 2022
Brazil: Pobreza na Infância e na Adolescência (in Portuguese) 2018
Costa Rica: Índice de Bienestar de la Niñez y la Adolescencia 2020 (in Spanish) 2021
Costa Rica: Índice de Bienestar de la Niñez y la Adolescencia (in Spanish) 2014
Chile: Nacer y crecer en pobreza y vulnerabilidad (in Spanish) 2021
Dominican Republic: Poverty and Income Distribution Indicators 2022 - table with disaggregations by age (in Spanish)
Ecuador: Privaciones múltiples en la niñez y adolescencia en Ecuador: una aproximación desde el enfoque de derechos a partir de los resultados de la Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrición 2018 (in Spanish) 2022
Eastern Caribbean Area: Child Poverty in the Eastern Caribbean Area 2017
El Salvador: Medición multidimensional de la pobreza en El Salvador: Una mirada a las familias con niñas, niños y adolescentes (in Spanish) 2015
Guatemala: Pobreza multidimensional infantil en Guatemala: privaciones a superar (in Spanish) 2016
Honduras: Los múltiples rostros de la pobreza infantil en Honduras: un desafío prioritario (in Spanish) 2016
Jamaica: Child Poverty and Disparities in Jamaica 2009
Mexico: Pobreza infantil y adolescente en México 2020 2023
Mexico: Pobreza infantil y adolescente en México (in Spanish) 2008-2016
Panama: Informe de pobreza multidimensional de niños, niñas y adolescentes 2022 (in Spanish) 2024
Panama: Índice de Pobreza Multidimensional de Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes en Panamá (in Spanish) 2018
Paraguay: Pobreza Infantil Multidimensional en Paraguay - Working paper (in Spanish) 2015
Trinidad: Voices of Children on Poverty in Trinidad: Consultation Report on Multidimensional Poverty 2018
Uruguay: Índice de Pobreza Multidimensional 2025
Uruguay: Análisis de la Pobreza Infantil en Uruguay y Propuestas de Políticas (in Spanish) 2024
Uruguay: Pobreza y privaciones múltiples en la infancia en Uruguay (in Spanish) 2016
LAC Region: The impact of climate change on child and youth poverty in Latin America 2025
LAC Region: Medición multidimensional de la pobreza infantil. Una revisión de sus principales componentes teóricos, metodológicos y estadísticos (in Spanish) 2017
LAC Region: Panorama Social de América Latina 2013 - Capítulo II (in Spanish) 2013
LAC Region: Pobreza infantil en América Latina y el Caribe (in Spanish) 2010
LAC Region: Guía para estimar la pobreza infantil (in Spanish)
West and Central Africa
Burkina Faso: Poverty Profiling and Vulnerability Analysis of Children in Boucle du Mouhoun in Burkina Faso 2017
Democratic Republic of Congo: Child poverty and deprivation in 2021 (in French)
Ghana: Child Deprivation and Income Poverty in Ghana 2016
Ghana: Multi-Dimensional Child Poverty in Ghana 2019
Nigeria: Reports on Child Poverty in Nigeria 2022
Sierra Leone: Multidimensional child poverty in Sierra Leone 2019
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Child Poverty Report 2016
Middle East and North Africa
MENA Region: Second Arab Multidimensional Poverty Report 2023
MENA Region: Child Poverty in the Arab States 2018
Algeria: Bien-être et privations des enfants et des jeunes en Algérie 2017
Djibouti: La pauvreté et les disparités chez les enfants à Djibouti (in French) 2009
Egypt: Child Poverty in Egypt 2015
Egypt: Child Poverty and disparities in Egypt 2010
Egypt: Multidimensional Child Poverty in Slums and Unplanned Areas in Egypt (in English, Arabic) 2013
Egypt: Understanding Child Multidimensional Poverty in Egypt 2017
Iraq: Assessment of COVID-19 Impact on Poverty and Vulnerability in Iraq 2020
Iraq: Child Poverty in Iraq 2017
Lebanon: Deprived Childhoods Child poverty in crisis-wracked Lebanon 2022
Lebanon: Multidimensional Child Poverty: A Qualitative Overview of Lebanon 2022
Morocco: Impact de la pandémie Covid-19 sur la pauvreté des enfants 2020
Morocco: Child poverty in Morocco (in French)2017
Syrian Arab republic: Multidimensional Poverty in Syria 2014
Tunisia: Impact des mesures de confinement associées à la pandémie COVID-19 sur la pauvreté des enfants (in French) 2020
Tunisia: Analyse de la situation des enfants en Tunisie (in French) 2020
Yemen: Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty among Households and the Overlapping Dimensions of Deprivation in Children in Yemen 2024 (also available in Arabic) 2025
East Asia and pacific
East Asia and Pacific region: Social Policy Publication Catalogue East Asia and Pacific 2022
East Asia and Pacific region: Child poverty in East Asia and the Pacific 2011
Cambodia: Child poverty report in Cambodia 2018
China: Child Poverty in China: From 2013 to 2018 2021
China: Brief - Multidimensional child deprivations 2023
Indonesia: Child poverty in Indonesia 2017
Lao PDR: SDGs and Children: Measuring Progress on Child Wellbeing in Lao PDR 2018
Malaysia: Children Without: A study of urban child poverty in low cost flats in Kuala Lumpur (in English and Malay) 2018
Philippines: Child poverty in the Philippines 2015
Thailand: Child Multidimensional Poverty in Thailand 2019
Timor-Leste: Options Paper: Understanding and Measuring Multidimensional Poverty in Timor-Leste 2021
Vietnam: Current situation and trends of multidimensional child poverty in Viet Nam 2021
South Asia
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Adjusted Multidimensional Poverty Index 2023 2025
Afghanistan: Multidimensional poverty index, 2019
Bangladesh: Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities. Key Findings, National Report Bangladesh 2009
Bhutan: Child Poverty in Bhutan 2016
Bhutan: Multidimensional Poverty Index Bhutan 2017
Nepal: Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021
Nepal: Child Poverty and Disparities Study 2010
Nepal: Multidimensional Poverty Index Nepal 2018
India: Multidimensional Poverty Index (Andhra Pradesh) 2017
Pakistan: Pakistan Floods 2022 The Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) - Main Report 2022
Pakistan: Multidimensional Poverty in Pakistan 2016
Sri Lanka: Multidimensional Poverty in Sri Lanka 2019
Sri Lanka: Multidimensional Poverty in Sri Lanka 2021
Europe and Central Asia
Europe and Central Asia region: The impact of the war in Ukraine and subsequent economic downturn on child poverty in eastern Europe 2022
Europe and Central Asia region: Child poverty in Europe and Central Asia region 2017
Europe and Central Asia region In Focus: Ending Child Poverty | Promoting social protection to tackle child poverty 2018
Albania: Child Well-Being in Albania 2016
Armenia: Social Snapshot and Poverty in Armenia 2018
Georgia: Child Wellbeing in Georgia 2023
Georgia: A detailed analysis of targeted social assistance and child poverty 2019
Georgia: Reducing Child Poverty in Georgia: a way forward 2014
Kazakhstan: Multidimensional child poverty in Kazakhstan 2023
Kazakhstan: Report on Child well-being in Kazakhstan 2013
Kosovo: Well-being of Children in Kosovo (UNSCR 1244) 2015
Montenegro: Fighting Poverty in Montenegro through Responsive Evidence-Based Social and Child Protection 2022
Montenegro: Multidimensional Child Poverty in Montenegro 2021
Tajikistan: Child Poverty in Tajikistan 2018
Ukraine: Child Poverty and Disparities in Ukraine 2021
Ukraine: Fighting COVID-19 in Ukraine: Initial estimates of the impact on poverty 2020
Uzbekistan: Uzbekistan Multidimensional Child Poverty Report 2023
Kyrgyzstan: Multidimensional Poverty Assessment for the Kyrgyz Republic 2020