Despite global progress 1 in 12 children worldwide live in countries where their prospects today are worse than those of their parents according to a UNICEF analysis conducted for World Children s Day. According to the analysis 180 million children live in 37 countries where they are more likely to live in extreme poverty be out of school or be killed by violent death than children living in those countries were 20 years ago. While the last generation has seen vast unprecedented gains in living standards for most of the world's children the fact that a forgotten minority of children