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  • Publication | 2025
The State of the World's Children 2025: Ending child poverty: Our shared imperative
Global Food and Nutrition Security

It claims the lives of children, undermines their health and development, and constrains their learning. Poverty is a denial of children’s fundamental rights.

And its impact reaches all of us.

Today’s children also face a convergence of crises – rising conflict, climate shocks, and funding shortfalls – that are destroying livelihoods, childhoods, and futures. The urgency for action has never been greater. 

After decades of progress, we know how to end child poverty.

What is needed today is the will.