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The global landscape of child poverty, as highlighted in “Insights into global child poverty” (World Bank — 2025-09-08), reveals a complex and starkly differentiated reality demanding urgent, integrated risk governance. While regions like South Asia and East Asia and Pacific have demonstrated remarkable progress, reducing extreme child poverty rates significantly since 2014—with India lifting millions from destitution and Indonesia alone moving nearly 20 million children out of poverty between 2015 and 2024—Sub-Saharan Africa remains the enduring epicenter, housing over 52% of children living on less than $3.00 per day in 2024, a figure virtually unchanged over a decade. This region, despite accounting for only 23% of the global child population, is home to three out of four children in extreme poverty, largely due to rapid population growth, entrenched fragility, persistent conflict, and intensifying climate vulnerability, underscoring systemic challenges to poverty reduction.

Further complicating this picture, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is the sole region experiencing a significant reversal, with extreme child poverty nearly doubling from 7% in 2014 to just over 13% in 2024, primarily driven by deteriorating conditions in Yemen and broader regional instability. Latin America and the Caribbean, while maintaining relatively lower extreme child poverty (under 8% in 2024), still grapples with widespread economic vulnerability, with over 41% of children living below the $8.30/day threshold. Europe and Central Asia show progress, with child poverty at the $8.30/day level falling from 19% to 10%. Despite national successes in countries like Georgia and Mexico, the overall pace of child poverty reduction lags that of adults, emphasizing that a dedicated, sustained, and inclusive commitment, integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR), disaster risk financing (DRF), and robust disaster risk intelligence (DRI), is essential for prioritizing children as a strategic investment in collective global stability and economic future.