Child poverty falling but millions still trapped in crisis, says Unicef

New Delhi: Child poverty has declined globally over the past two decades, but staggering disparities and overlapping crises continue to push millions of children into deprivation, Unicef said in a report on Thursday.

Severe child deprivation has decreased by one-third since 2000, marking a significant milestone in global development, the UN children's agency said in its report The State of the World's Children 2025.

However, about two in five children worldwide still faced severe deprivation, the report noted.

In India, as many as 206 million children experience at least one deprivation, but fewer than one-third, or 62 million, experience two or more, according to the report.

Unicef defines child deprivation as the absence of resources children need to survive, develop, and thrive, re