World, Sept. 17 -- The number of children living in multidimensional poverty has soared to approximately 1.2 billion due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new UNICEF and Save the Children analysis released Thursday, depicting 15 percent increase in the number of children living in deprivation.
According to the report, the multidimensional poverty analysis uses data on access to education, healthcare, housing, nutrition, sanitation and water from more than 70 countries. It highlights around 45 percent of children were severely deprived of at least one of these critical needs in the countries analyzed before the pandemic.
Although the analysis already projects a dire picture, UNICEF warns the situation will likely worsen in the month...