The United Nations said Monday that its global development goals for 2030 were at risk of failure, estimating that if current trends continue, nearly 70 million children will die from mostly preventable causes and that 750 million girls will be married while still children.
The organization also projected that more than 60 million primary school-aged children will be out of school, more than half in sub-Saharan Africa.
The annual United Nations Children’s Fund report, “The State of the World’s Children 2016,” reflected what Unicef officials said were widening disparities between rich and poor areas, with some of the poorest increasingly at risk.
Image: Portrait of a child from a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) near the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) base in Mogadishu. UN Photo/Tobin Jones.