{
 "title": "Across 60 countries, about 3 in 4 young children are on track socially and emotionally",
 "description": "Across 60 countries, a median 76.5% of children aged 3–4 are developmentally on track in the social-emotional domain, according to UNICEF's Early Childhood Development Index — with a range from 42% to 97%.",
 "url": "https://raisingstoics.com/research/data/early-childhood-development-domains",
 "question": null,
 "measure": "Children on track, %",
 "unit": "percent",
 "source": {
  "short": "UNICEF · Early Childhood Development Index",
  "name": "UNICEF Data, Early Childhood Development (ECD) dataflow — Early Childhood Development Index, children aged 36–59 months",
  "url": "https://data.unicef.org/topic/early-childhood-development/overview/",
  "license": "CC BY 3.0 IGO, UNICEF",
  "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/"
 },
 "license": "CC BY 3.0 IGO, UNICEF",
 "method": "Median and range across the 60 countries with domain-level Early Childhood Development Index data in UNICEF's database, children aged 36–59 months, national totals. Surveys are from 2010 to 2021 (UNICEF MICS and DHS), mostly in low- and middle-income countries; the US and UK are not included. The index is the older ECDI, not ECDI2030.",
 "takeaways": [
  "In the median country, 76.5% of children aged 3–4 are on track in the social-emotional domain — behind physical development (97.4%) and learning (93%).",
  "Countries vary widely: from 42% to 97% of children on track socially and emotionally.",
  "Early literacy and numeracy is by far the lowest (27.5%), but at 3–4 that mostly reflects whether children have met letters and numbers yet."
 ],
 "items": [
  {
   "label": "Physical",
   "value": 97.4,
   "range_low": 90.2,
   "range_high": 100
  },
  {
   "label": "Learning",
   "value": 93,
   "range_low": 62.1,
   "range_high": 100
  },
  {
   "label": "Social-emotional",
   "value": 76.5,
   "range_low": 41.9,
   "range_high": 96.9
  },
  {
   "label": "Literacy and numeracy",
   "value": 27.5,
   "range_low": 1.2,
   "range_high": 89.9
  }
 ],
 "csv": "https://raisingstoics.com/research/data/early-childhood-development-domains.csv",
 "chart_embed": "https://raisingstoics.com/research/embed/early-childhood-development-domains",
 "image": "https://raisingstoics.com/research/og/early-childhood-development-domains.png",
 "credit": "Raising Stoics (raisingstoics.com)"
}