Quick Facts About Children of Conflict
- Of the 15 conflict-affected countries, only two are expected to achieve universal primary education by 2015.
(Save the Children UK, Last in Line 2009, p.4) - Only 6% of refugee students are enrolled in secondary education, and even fewer opportunities exist for internally displaced youth.
(Women’s Commission, p. iii) - At least 6 million children have been seriously injured or permanently disabled by armed conflict.
(UN Office of the Secretary-General for Children of Armed Conflict, 2005) - 300,000 children serve as child soldiers in armed conflicts, 40% of them girls.
(UNICEF. State of the World’s Children 2005) - Of 25 million refugees and IDPs around the world, 44% of them are under the age 18, and 49% of those are girls.
(UNHCR, 2008 Global Trends, p.2) - Nearly 40 million primary-age children are out of school in conflict-affected fragile states. This constitutes more than half of the world’s 75 million out-of-school children.
(Save the Children UK, Last in Line 2009, p.1) - One in three primary-aged children is out school in conflict-affected countries, compared to one in 33 in middle-income countries.
(Save the Children UK, Last in Line 2009, p.5) - In Afghanistan, 1.8 million children are out of school, and two-thirds of those children are girls.
(Save the Children, Rewrite the Future, p.4) - In Darfur, in northern Sudan, only 39% of primary-aged children are enrolled in school.
(Ministry of Education, Sudan) - In Liberia, after 14 years of conflict, an estimated 60% of primary school students are over-age. This can lead to increased dropout rates and it also discourages families from sending their younger children to school, especially their girls, if there are over-aged boys in school. Because children in conflict-affected countries are prevented from starting school until they are older, there is often an above-average age school population.
(Save the Children UK, 2005) - Only 2% of the total global humanitarian contributions in 2008 went toward education
(Save the Children UK, Last in Line 2009, p.11) - Between 2007 and 2008, the number of identified stateless persons more than doubled to almost 6.6 million.
(UNHCR, 2008 Global Trends, p.20) - Donors pledged just 37% of the $46 million requested for education through the UN consolidated appeals process in 2002 - excluding appeals for Afghanistan.
(Women’s Commission, p. v, based on ReliefWeb) - An out-of-school child in a conflict state is allocated less than half ($26) of that of a child in another low-income country ($67) and less than a quarter of that of a child in a middle-income country ($109).
(Save the Children UK, Last in Line 2009, p.5)
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