THE Zambia Statistics Agency (ZAMSTATS) 2023 Child Poverty Report has revealed that 65 percent of children live in households where their basic needs are not met. And United Nations Resident Coordinator Beatrice Mutali says lack of recent official statistics on poverty, inequalities, and access to basic services presents a challenge in analysing Zambia’s real poverty situation. According to the report, 65 percent of Zambian children experience monetary poverty. “65 percent of Zambian children experience monetary poverty, meaning that they live in households whose total consumption is not sufficient to meet the minimum age-adjusted caloric requirements plus essential non-food needs of the household. A similar number of children (70.6 percent) experience multiple overlapping deprivations, meaning that they suffer from deprivations in...