The State of the World's Children

  • There are an estimated 145 million children who are orphaned (children aged 0-17 who have lost one or both parents)    world wide.  Of these children, 15 million were orphaned by AIDS, more then 12 million of whom are in sub-Saharan Africa.

  • South Asia, East Asia and Pacific have 72 million orphans due to all causes.

  • In sub-Sahara Africa there are approximately 46 million orphans due to all causes.

  • Of the 1.39 million people involved in forces commercial sexual exploitation, 40-50 percent are children. 

                                                                                               * Stats reported by UNICEF 2009