The State of the world's children 2014 in numbers. Every Child Counts. Revealing disparities, advancing children’s rights

Thirty years have passed since The State of the World’s Children began to publish tables of standardized global and national statistics aimed at providing a detailed picture of children’s circumstances. Much has changed in the decades since the first indicators of child well-being were presented. But the basic idea has not: Credible data about children’s
situations are critical to the improvement of their lives – and indispensable to realizing the rights of every child.