Remembered childhood
About 700 million children in the world are experiencing or are threatened with childhood loss based on a survey by the nonprofit Save the Children and published in the 2017 Stolen Childhoods report.
"Poor health, conflict, extreme violence, child marriage, early pregnancy, malnutrition, exclusion from education and child labor mean their childhood is over too soon," said Chairman of the Foundation of Sayangi Tunas Cilik Selina Sumbung, as an implementation partner Save the Children in Indonesia through a press release received by Antara in Jakarta on Tuesday.
The report compares data from 172 countries and assesses in which countries children are the most and the least have lost their childhood.
The result is Norway, Slovenia, Finland, Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, Ireland, Iceland, Italy is a country that is ranked first.
While the bottom 10 countries are from the African continent, including Guinea, Seirra Leone, Burkina Faso, South Sudan, Chad, Somalia, Central African Republic, Mali, Angola and Nigeria.