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All children

Quickfacts:  A nationwide perspective from the Kids Count Data Center

Poverty rates

• In 2012: 16,397,000 or 23% of children were living in poverty
• Twenty-six percent or 6,052,000 children ages 0 to 5 lived in poverty
• Twenty-one percent or 10,345,000 children ages 6 to 17 lived in poverty
• 7,354,000 or 10% of children were in extreme poverty in 2012
• Thirty-five percent of children were living in a single-parent home

Health insurance rates

• In 2011 9% of children ages 0 to 5 were without health insurance
• Ten percent of children ages 6 to 17 were without health insurance
• 6,952,000 or 9% of children ages 17 and below did not have health insurance
• Nineteen percent of parents were without health insurance

Obesity rates

• In 2012 31% of children and teens ages 10 to 17 were overweight or obese
• Forty-six percent of children and teens do not exercise regularly

Hunger

• In 2012 22% of children were living in households that were food insecure at some point during the year.