Poverty & Inequality Research

How Demographic Change, Digitalization, and Climate Change Influence Child Well-being: Global Projections to 2050

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How Demographic Change, Digitalization, and Climate Change Influence Child Well-being: Global Projections to 2050

The future trajectories of demographics, urbanisation, internet access, and climate change will have significant impacts on the lives of children and their well-being. 

This project offers a comprehensive understanding of the current state of child well-being globally, and analyses the anticipated situation of children into 2050, through a macro-pooled time series, projecting trends of demographics, urbanisation, internet access, and climate crisis impact. This is done through the lens of three child well-being and development indicators: human capital, learning poverty, and child poverty. 

Findings are presented through four briefs containing insights on the potential effects of each condition on child well-being, and a fifth brief that analyses the overall findings of the data project. 

The research was conducted for UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight, to inform the State of the World’s Children report, 2024. The project runs from December 2023 to June 2024.  For more information, please contact us here.

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