CONTENTS Forewords Kofi A. Annan Secretary-General of the United Nations vi Ann M. Veneman Executive Director, UNICEFvii Chapter 1 Our Commitments to Children 1 Chapter 2 The Root Causes Of Exclusion 11 Chapter 3 Invisible Children 35 Chapter 4 Including Children 59 Chapter 5 Working Together 85 References89 Statistical Tables95 General note on the data 96 Under-five mortality rankings 97 Table 1: Basic Indicators 98 Table 2: Nutrition 102 Table 3: Health106 Table 4: HIV/AIDS 110 Table 5: Education 114 Table 6: Demographic Indicators 118 Table 7: Economic Indicators 122 Table 8: Women 126 Table 9: Child Protection 130 Summary Indicators 132 Measuring human development 133 Table 10: The Rate of Progress 134 Index 138 Glossary143 UNICEF Offices 144