Data: The Child Flourishing Index
The Commission report called for measuring and ranking country progress on two separate measures – one on Child Flourishing, and one on excess CO2 emissions relative to 2030 targets.
The “Child Flourishing Index” is a composite measure that uses readily available SDG data to illustrate whether children in each country are getting what they need to survive and thrive. The “Futures profile” uses excess CO2 as a proxy measure for sustainability.
Some countries have a long way to go towards enabling children to live healthy lives, and some wealthier countries threaten the future of all children through carbon pollution, on course to cause runaway climate change and environmental disaster. No country does well on both
Citation: These visualisations were created by The Lancet to accompany “A future for the world’s children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission” by Helen Clark, Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Anshu Banerjee, at al, published February 2020
