Children
Our work on children and child well-being helps countries design policies that ensure every child can have the best possible start in life. We monitor progress on child well-being outcomes and provide policy assistance and advice to make sure children have the opportunities they need for a bright future.
Focus
OECD Child Well-being Dashboard
The OECD Child Well-being Dashboard is a tool for policy makers and the public to monitor countries’ efforts to promote child well being. Built using a selection of headline indicators from the OECD Child Well-being Data Portal, the dashboard contains 20 key internationally comparable indicators on children’s well-being outcomes, plus a range of additional context indicators on important drivers of child well-being and child-relevant public policies.
You can access the dashboard here.
What’s new?
- The economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage in European OECD countries (Nov 2022) (Policy Insights)
- Improving Early Equity: From Evidence to Action (Oct 2022)
- Starting unequal: How’s life for disadvantaged children? (Jul 2022)
- Assisting Care Leavers: Time for Action (Jun 2022)
- Cyberbullying: An overview of research and policy in OECD countries (Mar 2022)
- Trends Shaping Education 2022 (Jan 2022)
- Play, create and learn: What matters most for five-year-olds (Nov 2021)
Data
Explore the OECD Child Well-being Data Portal
Our Child Well-being Data Portal brings together data on child well-being and the settings in which children grow up.
Opinion
- Social and emotional skills: Global importance, local responsibility? (Nov 2022)
- How can equity in children’s early learning be achieved? (Oct 2022)
- Should education leaders be listening to children? (November 2021)
- Preparing youth for work: What really works in career guidance? (October 2021)
- Can support for Indigenous children’s early development play a part in addressing legacies of colonialism? (July 2021)
- Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies (Français) (July 2021)
- Ensuring a safe and beneficial digital environment for children (June 2021)
- Is curiosity a key to better early learning? (June 2021)
- Career Ready? Helping young people navigate the pandemic job market (January 2021)
- Child safety in the digital age: How education systems can help (January 2021)
- Educating healthy and happy children in the digital age (October 2020)
- Putting children at the centre of Africa’s prevention and response strategies to COVID-19 (April 2020)
- During the coronavirus crisis, children need books more than ever! (April 2020)
- Coronavirus is a devastating blow to children in poverty (March 2020)
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More from the child well-being community
- Stronger Data, Brighter Futures: Protecting children on the move with data and evidence (International Data Alliance for Children on the Move (IDAC), May 2022)
- Launch of the Global Partnership Strategy for Early Childhood, 2021-2030 (UNESCO, December 2021)
- The State of the World's Children 2021: On My Mind: Promoting, protecting and caring for children's mental health (UNICEF, October 2021)
- Life in Lockdown: Child and adolescent mental health and well-being in the time of COVID-19 (UNICEF-IRC, 2021)
- Growing up in lockdown: Europe’s children in the age of COVID-19 (Eurochild, November 2020)
- Putting children at the heart of Europe’s recovery (Eurochild’s Breakfast webinar to mark World Children’s Day 2020, 18-20 November 2020)
- Making Prevention Work (Preventive Structures and Policies For Children, Youth and Families, Bertelmann Stiftung)
- Worlds of Influence: Understanding what shapes child well-being in rich countries (UNICEF, Report Card 16, Sept. 2020)
- Spotlight on adolescent health and well-being: Findings from the 2017/2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC)survey in Europe and Canada (HBSC/WHO, May 2020)
Contacts
For more information on our work on child well-being, please contact wellbeing@oecd.org.
Journalists should contact the OECD's Media Relations Division on (33) 1 45 24 97 00 or news.contact@oecd.org