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Some 11 million young children die every year from preventable causes.
170 million children are malnourished.
More than 100 million children never attend school.
More than 1.2 billion people live in poverty, or one in every five persons, including more than 600 million children.
The average income in the world's richest countries is 74 times the level in the poorest five.
Girls represent nearly 60% of the children out of school.
At least 60 million girls are "missing", mostly in Asia, as a result of sex-selective abortion, infanticide or neglect due to a desire to have male babies.
Every month that the full-scale campaign needed to stop the terrifying HIV/AIDS pandemic is postponed, 250,000 children and young people become infected with the fatal virus.
Although primary school enrolment rates have increased globally since 1980, more than 130 million children of school age in the developing world are still growing up without access to basic education.
Two million girls between the ages of 5 and 15 are introduced into the commercial sex market each year.
Each day 8,500 children and young people around the world are infected with HIV and 2,500 women die from AIDS.
The world has more children living in poverty now than it did 10 years ago.
One billion people do not have safe water and more than 2.4 billion lack basic sanitation.
Every year, 585,000 women die of complications of pregnancy and childbirth that could have been prevented.
In the last year alone, approximately 31 million refugees and displaced persons were caught in conflicts that ravaged the world.
In the decade since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, more than 2 million children have been killed and more than 6 million injured or disabled in armed conflicts.
Some 50 million to 60 million children between the ages of 5 and 11 work in hazardous circumstances.
Even in countries that have robust economic growth, poverty is paralysing ever greater numbers, as in parts of Latin America, where the poorest 20 per cent of people share less than 3 per cent of national income.
Sources: UNICEF, United Nations Population Fund, UNDP Human Development Report 2000
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