Statistical handbook on the world's children / Chandrika Kaul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaul, Chandrika.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Statistics.

Children.

Genre:

Statistics.

Physical Description:

xxi, 544 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Other Title:

World's children

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Oryx Press, 2002.

Contents:

A. Demographics and Vital Statistics 1

1. Child Population 3

2. Sex Ratio at Birth 28

3. Population Growth Rates 32

4. Child Population Projections 36

5. Youth Dependency Ratio 41

6. Infant Mortality Rate 43

7. Under-5 Mortality Rate 65

8. Gender Difference in Mortality 77

9. Births to Adolescents 82

10. Maternal Mortality 89

11. The Mothers' Index 93

12. Life Expectancy 95

13. Healthy Life Expectancy 115

B. Education 119

1. Number of Schools 123

2. Compulsory Education 126

3. Entrance Age and Duration of Schooling by Level 129

4. Net Apparent Intake Rate 141

5. Enrollment Ratios 143

6. Age-Specific Enrollment Ratio 154

7. Gender and Wealth 157

8. Types of Education 167

9. Class Size and Pupil-Teacher Ratio 177

10. Coefficient of Efficiency 184

11. Students Repeating Grades 185

12. Survival Ratios 187

13. Transition Rate 189

14. School Life Expectancy 190

15. Facilities 191

16. Public Spending on Education 194

17. Time Spent in Overall Instruction 206

18. Homework 207

19. Student Performance and Achievement 208

20. Literacy Rates 217

21. Illiteracy 220

C. Health and Nutrition 223

1. Central Government Expenditures for Health Care 226

2. Access to Safe Water 228

3. Access to Sanitation 231

4. Hospital Beds 234

5. Health Care Professionals 235

6. Births Attended by Skilled Personnel 243

7. Vaccination and Immunization 246

8. Vitamin and Mineral Supplements 274

9. Oral Rehydration Treatment (ORT) 277

10. Food Aid 281

11. Breast-fed Babies 282

D. Disease, Hunger and Malnutrition 284

1. Causes of Death 287

2. Preventable Diseases 296

3. Malaria 314

4. Childhood Cancer 315

5. Deaths from Preventable Injuries 315

6. Deaths from Traffic Accidents 316

7. Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies 317

8. Oral Disease Prevalence 322

9. Low Birth Weight or Underweight 325

10. Childhood Obesity 328

11. Hunger 329

12. Malnutrition 343

E. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) 351

1. Beginning of the Epidemic 353

2. Children Living with HIV/AIDS 354

3. AIDS Deaths 364

4. Teens and the AIDS Info Gap 371

5. AIDS Orphans 374

6. AIDS and Education 379

F. Economics 380

1. Gross Domestic and National Product per Capita 383

2. Indebtedness 390

3. Official Development Assistance (ODA) 395

4. Spending for Basic Social Services 398

5. Human Poverty Index (HPI) 400

6. International Poverty Line (IPL) 402

7. Child Poverty in the Industrial World 404

8. Poverty and Household Composition 405

9. Minimum Work Age 406

10. Children's Work Places 407

11. Size of Child Labor Force 408

12. Distribution of Child Labor 414

13. Youth Unemployment 415

G. Family, Social Environment and Behavior 416

1. Human Development Index (HDI) 419

2. The Child Risk Measure (CRM) 422

3. Households 425

4. Average Family Size 429

5. Children Living Away from Parents 430

6. Foster Care and Foster Children 431

7. Institutional and State Care 432

8. Adoption 433

9. Children of Divorce 435

10. Working Mothers 436

11. Sexual Activity 437

12. Contraception 438

13. Teenage Abortions 439

14. Married Adolescents 439

15. Tobacco and Alcohol 445

16. Food Habits 448

17. Dental Care 451

18. Leisure Activities 451

19. Exercise 453

H. Crime, Violence and War 454

1. Illegal Drug Use 457

2. Age of Criminal Responsibility 461

3. Juvenile Crimes 462

4. Juvenile Prisoners 465

5. Homicide, Suicide and Firearm-Related Deaths 468

6. Commercial Sexual Exploitation 468

7. Violence Against Girls 471

8. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) 472

9. Refugee Children 473

10. Children in the Military 482

11. Landmines 493

1. World Health Organization Regional and Economic Groupings 496

2. Declaration of the Rights of the Child 498

3. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 499

4. Signatories to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 509

5. UNICEF's Response to HIV/AIDS Epidemic 512

6. International Labour Organization C138 Minimum Age Convention, 1973 513

7. C182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 517

8. Declaration on Social and Legal Principles Relating to the Protection and Welfare of Children, with Special Reference to Foster Placement and Adoption Nationally and Internationally 520

9. Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict 522

10. Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict and on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography 525.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1573563900

OCLC:

48880389