Child Abuse Awareness - Sensibilisation à l’abus des enfants 87 Top 10 Threats to Childhood in Canada (cont’d) Threat 6: Poverty • 28.4% of children under 18 in the ten provinces lived in a food-insecure • household in 2023, amounting to 2.1 million children compared to almost • 1.8 million in 2022 (an increase from 24.3%). Consequently, one in three • children in Canada do not have access to sufficient food, or food of an •adequate quality, to meet their basic needs. Threat 7: Infant Mortality • The 2024 projected infant mortality rate is 3.843 deaths per 1000 live • births, a 2.54% decline from 2023. • Rates of infant mortality are higher for Indigenous and immigrant infants. Threat 8: Bullying • Police reports of online sexual exploitation of children nearly tripled since • 2014, reaching 160 incidents per 100,000 Canadian children and youth • in 2022. • Sextortion reports increased by 150% since June 2022. • Online sexual luring reports have increased 815% over the last five years, • along with a rise in child deaths by suicide linked to sextortion. Threat 9: Limited Physical Activity and Play • Only 39% of children get the recommended 60 minutes of daily activity •according to ParticipACTION’s 2024 Report Card. • The number of overweight/obese youth aged 12-17 increased by 57%, • from 428,900 in 2018 to 673,100 in 2022. • Children experiencing poverty, racialization, or disability are at greater • risk of limited activity. Threat 10: Climate Change • 37% of youth report that their feelings about climate change negatively • affect their daily life at least moderately. • Children continue to be impacted by extreme weather events: wildfires, • floods, heat waves and rising sea levels and face threats from air and • water pollution and food contamination. • Climate change has a disproportionate impact on young people’s health • and future and direct effects on children’s physical and mental well-being.
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