Latin American Economy & Business - September 2017 (ISSN 1741-7430)

There are 195m children in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), a high 31% of the population. In its latest annual overview of child poverty in the region, UNICEF notes that despite progress, four of every ten children are still considered poor from a human rights and multidimensional perspective, while one in six are considered ‘extremely poor’. In all, a staggering 70m children in the region are categorised as living in poverty.