UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
The true measure of a nation’s standing is how well it attends to its children – their health and safety, their material security,their education and socialization, and their sense of being loved, valued, and included in the families and societies into which they are born.
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 permit comparison, and to stimulate the discussion and development of policies to improve children’s lives.
The chart above presents the findings of this Report Card in summary form. Countries are listed in order of their average rank for the six dimensions of child well-being that have been assessed. 1 A light blue background indicates a place in the top third of the table; mid-blue denotes the middle third and dark blue the bottom third.
Canada is in 12th position.
Full text and supporting documentation can be downloaded
from the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre website.
