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Global Child Index — v1.0 archive

Archived — v1.0

This is the permanent archive of Index v1.0: 9 indicators across four domains (Health & Nutrition, Education, Poverty & Water, Adolescent & Digital), data as fetched 21 Oct 2026. It is kept unchanged so that every v1.0 rank and score remains checkable, and so that movement between v1.0 and the current v1.1 can be decomposed into methodology effects (the indicator set grew from 9 to 16) and data effects (revised values on the original indicators). A rank change between versions is not by itself evidence that a country improved or deteriorated.

Rankings (v1.0) — countries with at least 70% indicator coverage

RankCountryScore / 100Coverage
1 Norway 98.8 78%
2 Singapore 98.8 78%
3 Korea, Rep. 98.8 89%
4 Sweden 98.7 78%
5 Denmark 98.1 78%
6 Iceland 98.1 78%
7 Spain 98.1 89%
8 Netherlands 98.0 78%
9 Canada 98.0 78%
10 Belgium 98.0 89%
11 United Kingdom 98.0 89%
12 United Arab Emirates 97.8 89%
13 Finland 97.8 89%
14 Ireland 97.7 89%
15 Slovenia 97.4 78%
16 Lithuania 97.3 100%
17 Estonia 97.2 100%
18 Malta 97.1 100%
19 Latvia 97.1 100%
20 Cyprus 97.1 89%
21 Israel 97.0 78%
22 France 96.9 78%
23 Bahrain 96.9 78%
24 Belarus 96.8 100%
25 Italy 96.6 89%
26 Qatar 96.5 100%
27 Chile 96.5 100%
28 Portugal 96.4 100%
29 Luxembourg 96.3 78%
30 Saudi Arabia 96.0 78%
31 Switzerland 95.7 78%
32 United States 95.7 89%
33 Greece 95.6 78%
34 Germany 95.3 89%
35 Poland 95.2 89%
36 Kuwait 95.2 89%
37 Hungary 94.7 78%
38 Austria 94.7 78%
39 Czechia 94.5 78%
40 Uruguay 94.5 89%
41 Maldives 94.2 78%
42 Argentina 94.1 89%
43 Kazakhstan 93.9 89%
44 Oman 93.8 89%
45 Montenegro 93.6 100%
46 Bosnia and Herzegovina 93.5 78%
47 Russian Federation 93.5 89%
48 North Macedonia 93.3 78%
49 Malaysia 92.9 100%
50 Iran, Islamic Rep. 92.8 100%
51 Turkiye 92.7 89%
52 Serbia 92.6 100%
53 Croatia 92.2 78%
54 Uzbekistan 91.7 100%
55 Slovak Republic 91.7 78%
56 Georgia 91.5 100%
57 Bulgaria 91.4 100%
58 Ukraine 91.3 78%
59 Armenia 91.3 100%
60 Thailand 91.1 78%
61 Mauritius 90.9 78%
62 Barbados 90.6 89%
63 Albania 90.6 100%
64 Brazil 90.4 100%
65 St. Lucia 90.2 89%
66 Tunisia 90.2 89%
67 Romania 89.8 89%
68 West Bank and Gaza 89.5 100%
69 Jordan 89.4 100%
70 Costa Rica 89.1 100%
71 Grenada 88.8 78%
72 Algeria 88.8 78%
73 Jamaica 88.4 89%
74 Cuba 88.2 78%
75 Moldova 88.1 100%
76 Kyrgyz Republic 87.9 89%
77 Mongolia 87.7 89%
78 Morocco 87.5 100%
79 Azerbaijan 87.3 89%
80 Egypt, Arab Rep. 87.2 100%
81 Bhutan 87.1 100%
82 Viet Nam 87.0 89%
83 Seychelles 87.0 100%
84 Belize 86.8 89%
85 Cabo Verde 86.6 89%
86 Bolivia 86.5 89%
87 Trinidad and Tobago 86.3 78%
88 Peru 85.8 100%
89 Ecuador 85.4 100%
90 Colombia 85.3 100%
91 Sri Lanka 85.3 100%
92 Lebanon 84.0 78%
93 Guyana 83.9 89%
94 Dominican Republic 83.7 100%
95 Panama 83.6 89%
96 Mexico 83.6 100%
97 Tajikistan 83.4 100%
98 Iraq 83.3 78%
99 Paraguay 83.1 100%
100 Fiji 83.0 89%
101 Tonga 82.9 100%
102 El Salvador 82.8 89%
103 Suriname 82.7 100%
104 India 82.5 100%
105 South Africa 80.4 100%
106 Indonesia 80.4 100%
107 Samoa 80.3 100%
108 Namibia 80.0 78%
109 Philippines 79.6 100%
110 Kiribati 78.8 89%
111 Nicaragua 78.1 89%
112 Myanmar 77.2 100%
113 Naoero 77.0 100%
114 Bangladesh 76.2 100%
115 Cambodia 76.1 78%
116 Marshall Islands 76.0 89%
117 Sao Tome and Principe 75.2 100%
118 Honduras 73.6 100%
119 Comoros 73.6 89%
120 Tuvalu 72.3 100%
121 Ghana 72.3 100%
122 Lao PDR 72.2 100%
123 Syrian Arab Republic 72.0 89%
124 Kenya 71.8 78%
125 Nepal 71.6 100%
126 Djibouti 71.1 89%
127 Guatemala 70.8 100%
128 Gambia, The 69.7 89%
129 Timor-Leste 69.1 89%
130 Rwanda 68.8 89%
131 Eswatini 67.5 100%
132 Mauritania 66.7 89%
133 Cameroon 66.6 89%
134 Senegal 65.4 100%
135 Congo, Rep. 64.4 78%
136 Lesotho 64.2 100%
137 Pakistan 64.2 100%
138 Vanuatu 64.0 100%
139 Togo 62.6 100%
140 Cote d'Ivoire 62.2 100%
141 Zimbabwe 61.5 100%
142 Papua New Guinea 60.7 78%
143 Benin 59.7 100%
144 Yemen, Rep. 59.3 78%
145 Guinea-Bissau 59.0 89%
146 Burkina Faso 58.1 89%
147 Sudan 57.8 78%
148 Guinea 57.8 89%
149 Uganda 57.1 89%
150 Nigeria 56.6 89%
151 Ethiopia 56.5 100%
152 Zambia 56.4 78%
153 Tanzania 56.1 100%
154 Burundi 55.7 89%
155 Angola 55.6 89%
156 Sierra Leone 55.5 100%
157 Mali 52.2 89%
158 Afghanistan 51.8 78%
159 Liberia 50.9 89%
160 Madagascar 50.0 100%
161 Mozambique 46.1 100%
162 Malawi 45.6 89%
163 Chad 42.2 100%
164 Congo, Dem. Rep. 41.6 78%
165 Niger 41.4 89%
166 South Sudan 36.1 78%
167 Central African Republic 36.0 100%

Provisional (v1.0) — insufficient coverage to rank

CountryProvisional scoreCoverageStatus
American Samoa 86.6 22% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Andorra 95.6 44% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Antigua and Barbuda 87.5 56% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Aruba 92.7 56% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Australia 96.5 67% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Bahamas, The 82.4 56% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Bermuda 90.8 44% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Botswana 74.5 67% Provisional — insufficient coverage
British Virgin Islands 84.9 56% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Brunei Darussalam 93.9 67% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Cayman Islands 91.6 33% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Channel Islands 95.9 11% Provisional — insufficient coverage
China 96.9 67% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Curacao 80.9 22% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Dominica 86.8 56% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Equatorial Guinea 61.4 67% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Eritrea 51.4 67% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Faroe Islands 97.7 22% Provisional — insufficient coverage
French Polynesia 83.7 33% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Gabon 81.1 67% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Gibraltar 96.7 56% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Greenland 76.0 22% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Guam 86.2 33% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Haiti 71.4 67% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Hong Kong SAR, China 97.4 56% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Isle of Man 97.8 22% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Japan 95.7 67% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 85.1 44% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Kosovo 93.0 44% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Libya 91.8 44% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Liechtenstein 95.1 56% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Macao SAR, China 95.4 67% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 73.6 56% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Monaco 98.3 44% Provisional — insufficient coverage
New Caledonia 91.0 33% Provisional — insufficient coverage
New Zealand 97.1 67% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Northern Mariana Islands 84.4 22% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Palau 91.0 67% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Puerto Rico (US) 87.4 67% Provisional — insufficient coverage
San Marino 93.8 67% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 80.7 22% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Solomon Islands 65.3 67% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Somalia, Fed. Rep. 50.1 44% Provisional — insufficient coverage
St. Kitts and Nevis 88.8 56% Provisional — insufficient coverage
St. Martin (French part) 95.0 22% Provisional — insufficient coverage
St. Vincent and the Grenadines 86.9 56% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Turkmenistan 80.0 67% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Turks and Caicos Islands 86.5 56% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Venezuela, RB 81.6 67% Provisional — insufficient coverage
Virgin Islands (U.S.) 82.5 33% Provisional — insufficient coverage

Methodology (v1.0)

For each indicator the most recent value published for 2010–2025 was converted to a 0–100 score using the fixed bounds below; a country’s score is the mean of its available indicator scores and coverage is the share of the 9 indicators with a recent value. All series were drawn from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators.

IndicatorDomainSourceScoring bounds
Under-5 mortality rateHealth & NutritionUN IGME via World Bank0 → 100 · 250 → 0
Stunting prevalence (under-5)Health & NutritionUNICEF/WHO/World Bank JME via World Bank0% → 100 · 100% → 0
Primary school enrolment (net)EducationUNESCO UIS via World Bankvalue itself (0–100%)
Secondary school enrolment (net)EducationUNESCO UIS via World Bankvalue itself (0–100%)
Youth literacy rate (15–24)EducationUNESCO UIS via World Bankvalue itself (0–100%)
Poverty headcount ($2.15/day)Poverty & WaterWorld Bank0% → 100 · 100% → 0
Safely managed drinking waterPoverty & WaterWHO/UNICEF JMP via World Bankvalue itself (0–100%)
Adolescent fertility rateAdolescent & DigitalUN Population Division via World Bank0 → 100 · 200 → 0
Individuals using the internetAdolescent & DigitalITU via World Bankvalue itself (0–100%)