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Millions of children around the world don’t get the care they need, and the problem exists in both the developed and developing worlds. The following statistics illustrate the problem.

• Globally, researchers estimate that 35 million children under five are left on their own or with a very young sibling.
  • Source: Women’s Work: Mothers, children and the global childcare crisis
• The childcare gap affects 129 million women around the world.
  • Source: Women’s Work: Mothers, children and the global childcare crisis
• 14% of children live in single parent households worldwide, and women head more than 80 percent of these households.
  • Source: Global Issues
• 1 billion additional women will enter the workforce between 2020 and 2030
  • Source: Booz & Company

• 35 percent of children live in single-parent families
  • Source: KIDS COUNT data center
• 71 percent of mothers with children are in the labor force.
  • Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• In the US, mothers often end up on waiting lists for daycares for months, and a third of families report difficulty finding care.
  • Source: Center for American Progress
• Infant care in the US is more expensive than college, and the cost of childcare is equal to 53 percent of the average median family income.
  • New America
• 61 percent of children under five spend at least part of their week in the care of somebody other than a parent.
  • US Census Bureau
• 54 percent of low income families and 47 percent of above-average income families live in childcare deserts.
  • Childcare Deserts Tool