The State of the World’s Children 2024

January 23, 2025 – The 2024 State of the World’s Children Report, released by UNICEF, examines the forces and trends shaping our world today and reflects on how they might shape the future. It explores three megatrends that will profoundly impact children’s lives between now and the 2050s: demographic shifts, the climate and environmental crises and frontier technologies. The report also presents three future scenarios – possible outcomes, not predictions – for how children could experience the world of 2050.
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