The index is released by Save the Children, a non-profit organisation as part of Changing Lives in Our Lifetime – Global Childhood Report, 2019.

• India ranks 113 in 176 countries.However, India has improved significantly on child mortality from 39 deaths per 1000 live births in 2017.
• Singapore tops the list and eight European countries figure among the top 10.
• Globally, the rate of child marriage has reduced by 25 per cent in 2019. In South Asia, India has performed significantly well where child marriage is down 51 per cent since 2000 and 63 percent since 1990.

Countries are evaluated on eight parameters on the wellbeing of those up to 19 years of age — child mortality, malnutrition, lack of education, child labour, early marriage, adolescent birth, displacement by conflict and child homicide.