Overview
- Roughly one in five children worldwide lived within 50 kilometers of at least one recorded conflict event in the year assessed.
- The count rose by about 47 million from the previous year, reaching the highest level since tracking began in 2005.
- Investigators documented 41,763 crimes against children in conflict settings, a 30 percent increase from 2023.
- More than half of those violations occurred in the occupied Palestinian territories, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Somalia.
- Save the Children, which cites PRIO and UN reporting, counted 61 interstate conflicts and urged urgent political action and a shift in funding from weapons to child protection.