Children

DRIVER: 65% of children entering primary schools today will ultimately work in new job types and functions that currently don't exist. And, the pressure to perform and be tech savvy will only increase inexorably. Discover how your children's early lives will change and how you can help them live fruitful and happy lives into adulthood.

• Up to an additional 145-220 million people could be living on less than $2 a day and there could be an additional 165,000 to 250,000 child deaths per year in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa by 2100.
• People and Disability Living Allowance for Children is forecast to increase from £217 million to £312 million over the period 2020-21 to 2024-25.
• The significant increase in UK children at risk of gang involvement and trafficking - and the numbers of all children subject to child protection investigations - are of real concern.
• There will be substantial efforts to eradicate child labour in the value chain before 2030, especially in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is home to more than 70% of global cobalt reserves.
• Humanitarian workers report a significant increase in aerial missions run by the Afghan Air Force and international military forces over the past year, elevating operational risks to reach the most vulnerable children.
• 15 million people in the UK are expected to be living in poverty in 2020 including 2 million pensioners and over 4 million children.
• By 2020, the number of people aged 60 or older will outnumber children under 5 years old.
• In a world where people age 65 and older are expected to edge out the number of children under the age of 18 by 2035, health care workers are more important than ever.
• All baby boomers will be older than 65 and, within the decade, older adults (65 years and older) are projected to outnumber children (under 18 years) for the first time in U.S. history.
• By 2034, the demographic scales will tip further: older adults are expected to outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history.
• By 2020, fewer than one-half of children in the United States are projected to be non-Hispanic White (49.8 percent of the projected 74 million children under age 18).
• The proportion of children living in a household with less than 60 per cent of the median income - will increase from 30 per cent to 36.6 per cent by 2021 in the UK.
• If current trends hold in Italy, very soon single, childless people will surpass couples with children: in ten years, one-member units increased by 39%, while at the same time couples with children dropped more than 7%.
• In sub-Saharan Africa, the region that is expected to account for more than half of the world's population growth over the coming decades, the number of babies projected to be born between 2020 and 2050 (nearly 1.4 billion) exceeds the number born between 1990 and 2020 by more than 50 per cent.
• Disability Assistance for Children and Young People will replace DLA for Children in Scotland from summer 2020.
• The world will need to train nearly 25 million new primary school teachers and 45 million secondary school teachers by 2030 if every child is to be provided with a basic education.
• Population growth is increasingly tied to Canada immigration and-if current levels continue-nearly half of the population will likely be immigrants or children of immigrants by 2036.
• In many Western European and Asian countries, the percentage of individuals older than 65 years will be closer to 40% of the population, and the average life expectancy of children born in high-income countries over the next decades is projected to increase to nearly 100 years.
• After Xi Jinping's comments expect the Chinese government to push the development of blockchain technology, ahead of the application of cryptocurrencies which are banned in China.
• Asia will remain at the forefront of innovation in blockchain, with China's digital currency set to be rolled out next year.
• Global spending on AI will reach $57.6 billion by 2020 and 51% of businesses will be making the transition to AI with blockchain integration.
• 41 percent of technology company leaders expect to implement blockchain technology at their company over the next three years.
• By 2023, the global RPA market is expected to be worth $8.69 billion, and technology company CIOs report they are outpacing other industries with their investment in RPA and other transformational technologies such as artificial intelligence, IoT, and blockchain.

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Last updated: 02 April 2020