Child Wellbeing in an Unpredictable World

In May 2025, UNICEF released the report titled “Child Wellbeing in an Unpredictable World,” revealing a steep decline in academic performance and mental health since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Academic and Health Impact of the Pandemic

  • Global academic performance fell sharply, with fifty percent of fifteen-year-olds lacking functional literacy in 2022.
  • India's learning poverty rate surged to seventy percent post-pandemic, indicating severe foundational literacy and numeracy gaps.
  • Physical health worsened as childhood obesity rates rose, projected to affect twenty-seven million Indian children by 2030.
  • Infant Mortality Rate in India improved significantly, dropping to twenty-seven per thousand live births by the year 2021.
  • The Integrated Child ....
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