- Name
- Proportion of children under 5 years of age who are developmentally on track in health, learning and psychosocial well-being, by sex
- Indicator purpose
- The purpose of this indicator is to track whether children under 5 years of age are healthy and learning; to track the psychosocial well-being of children under 5 years of age.
- Abstract
- The proportion of children under 5 years of age who are developmentally on track in health, learning and psychosocial well-being is currently being measured by the percentage of children aged 36-59 months who are developmentally on-track in at least three of the following four domains: literacy-numeracy, physical, socio-emotional and learning.
- Contact organization / person
- Ministry of Education (MOE)
- Unit of measure
- Percentage (%)
- Other characteristics
- Early childhood development (ECD) sets the stage for life-long thriving. Investing in ECD is one of the most critical and cost-effective investments a country can make to improve adult health, education and productivity to build human capital and promote sustainable development. ECD is equity from the start and provides a good indication of national development. Efforts to improve ECD can bring about human, social and economic improvements for both individuals and societies.
- Classification used
- Literacy-numeracy: Children are identified as being developmentally on track if they can do at least two of the following: identify/name at least 10 letters of the alphabet; read at least 4 simple, popular words; and/or know the name and recognize the symbols of all numbers from 1 to 10.
Physical: If the child can pick up a small object with two fingers, like a stick or rock from the ground, and/or the mother/primary caregiver does not indicate that the child is sometimes too sick to play, then the child is regarded as being developmentally on track in the physical domain.
Social-emotional: The child is considered developmentally on track if two of the following are true: The child gets along well with other children; the child does not kick, bite or hit other children; and the child does not get distracted easily.
Learning: If the child follows simple directions on how to do something correctly and/or when given something to do, and is able to do it independently, then the child is considered to be developmentally on track in the learning domain.
- Disaggregation
- is by age, sex, place of residence, wealth, geographic location, caregiver education and other background characteristics.
- Key statistical concepts
- The number of children aged 36-59 months who are developmentally on-track in at least three of the following four domains: literacy-numeracy, physical, social-emotional and learning divided by the total number of children aged 36-59 months in the population multiplied by 100.
- Recommended uses
- This indicator is used to measure the number of children aged 36-59 months who are developmentally on-track in at least three of the following four domains: literacy-numeracy, physical, social-emotional and learning.
- Other comments
- All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.
- Baseline
- 82.5% (2015)
- Target 2020
- 90%.
- Target 2030
- 98%
