On October 19, 2022the 10th edition of KidsRights Index, 2022 was releasedby KidsRights Foundation in cooperation with Erasmus University Rotterdam.
The KidsRights Index is the first and the only global ranking that annually measures how children’s rights are respected worldwide and to what extent countries are committed to improving the rights of children.
It comprises a ranking of all UN member states that have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and for which sufficient data is available, as of 2022 a total of 185 countries are part of the Index.
The index analyses the five key components of the convention:
Right to life
Right to health
Right to education
Right to protection
Enabling environment for child rights
In 2022 Iceland once again reclaimed the top spot with an overall score of 0.945, while Chad remained the lowest-scoring country at just 0.181.
India ranked 115th with an overall score of 0.663.
