Innocenti Report Card

In keeping with UNICEF's mandate to advocate for children in every country, the Centre's Report Card series focuses on the well-being of children in industrialized countries. Each Report Card includes a league table ranking the countries of the OECD according to their record on the subject under discussion. The Report Cards are designed to appeal to a wider audience while maintaining academic rigour.

Status Active

Print ISSN 1605-7317

Online ISSN 2519-108X

Language(s)

English

Subject Children and Youth

DOI 10.18356/76065286-en

A League Table of Child Poverty in Rich Nations

( Print: August 2000, PDF: August 2000 )

This publication provides the most comprehensive estimates so far of child poverty across the 23 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the world's...

An Unfair Start

Inequality in Children's Education in Rich Countries

Series: Innocenti Report Card

( Print: February 2019, PDF: February 2019 )

This report focuses on educational inequalities in 41 of the world's richest countries, all of which are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and/or the...

Building the Future

Children and the Sustainable Development Goals in Rich Countries

( Print: June 2017, PDF: June 2017 )

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed by the international community in 2015 represent an ambitious effort to set a global agenda for development that is both equitable and sustainable, in...

Child Poverty in Perspective

An Overview of Child Well-being in Rich Countries - A Comprehensive Assessment of the Lives and...

( Print: January 2007, PDF: March 2007 )

This Report Card provides a comprehensive assessment of the lives and well-being of children and young people in 21 nations of the industrialized world. Its purpose is to encourage monitoring, to...

Child Poverty in Rich Countries 2005

( Print: May 2005, PDF: May 2005 )

This Review finds that the proportion of children living in poverty has risen in a majority of the world’s developed economies for which data are available. No matter which of the commonly-used...

Child Well-being in Rich Countries

A Comparative Overview

( Print: May 2013, PDF: April 2013 )

Part One of this report presents a league table of child well-being in 29 of the world's advanced economies. Part Two looks at what children say about their own well-being (including a league table of...

Children of the Recession

The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Child Well-being in Rich Countries

( Print: December 2014, PDF: December 2014 )

The data and observations in this Innocenti Report Card reveal a strong and multifaceted correlation between the impact of the Great Recession on national economies and a decline in children’s well...

Fairness for Children

A League Table of Inequality in Child Well-being in Rich Countries

( Print: May 2016, PDF: April 2016 )

This Report Card presents an overview of inequalities in child well-being in 41 countries of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It focuses...

League Table of Child Deaths by Injury in Rich Nations, A

( Print: March 2001, PDF: March 2001 )

This second Innocenti Report Card focuses on child death by injury in the member countries of the OECD. It presents, for the first time, a standardized league table ranking 26 of the world's richest...

League Table of Child Maltreatment Deaths in Rich Nations, A

( Print: April 2004, PDF: April 2004 )

This publication is the fifth in a series of Innocenti Report Cards designed to monitor the performance of industrialized nations in meeting the needs of their children. Each Report Card presents and...

League Table of Educational Disadvantage in Rich Nations, A

( Print: April 2003, PDF: April 2003 )

This publication monitors the performance of industrialized countries in meeting the needs of their children. Using data from two different surveys of students in twenty-four OECD countries, it...

League Table of Teenage Births in Rich Nations, A

( Print: November 2001, PDF: November 2001 )

This publication presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey on teenage birth rates in the industrialized world. It attempts to analyze why some countries have teenage birth rates that are...

Measuring Child Poverty

New League Tables of Child Poverty in the World's Rich Countries

( Print: June 2012, PDF: July 2012 )

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Innocenti Research Centre Report Card series provokes debate on child well-being in wealthy countries. It provides an important tool to address critical...

The Child Care Transition

A League Table of Early Childhood Education and Care in Economically Advanced Countries

( Print: June 2009, PDF: June 2009 )

A great change is coming over childhood in the world's richest countries. Today's rising generation is the first in which a majority are spending a large part of early childhood in some form of out-of...

The Children Left Behind

A League Table of Inequality in Child Well-being in the World's Rich Countries

( Print: February 2011, PDF: August 2011 )

Report Card 9 The Children Left Behind presents a first overview of inequalities in child well-being for 24 Member States of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The Report Card...

Worlds of Influence

Understanding What Shapes Child Well-being in Rich Countries

( Print: April 2021, PDF: April 2021 )

For the last 20 years, the Innocenti Report Card series has led the way in comparing children’s well-being across rich countries. Report Card 16 develops this further through a multi-level approach to...