A register of promises, numbers and voices
You cannot learn if you are not well.
Nearly every country has promised its young people school, and health that includes the mind. Most countries have no nationally representative measurement of children's mental health.
Three lines from the register
Each line is stamped with its kind of number, year and source.
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Legal
Free, compulsory primary education is treaty law under the ICESCR (adopted 1966) and the CRC (adopted 1989); 174 and 196 states respectively are parties.
196states party to the CRCUN Treaty Collection · treaty pages read 21 October 2026 · treaties.un.org, chapter IV-11 (CRC, 196 parties) · chapter IV-3 (ICESCR, 174 parties)
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Modelled
273 million children and youth were out of school in 2024: 79 million of primary age, 64 million lower-secondary, 130 million upper-secondary; the share has been flat at about 17% since 2015.
273million, 2024UNESCO Institute for Statistics and GEM Report · out-of-school model, published 26 March 2026 · world-education-blog.org/2026/03/26/the-out-of-school-population-has-risen-for-a-seventh-year-in-a-row
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Modelled
WHO estimates that about one in seven (14.3%) 10 to 19-year-olds live with a mental health condition.
about1 in 7aged 10 to 19, GBD 2021WHO adolescent mental health fact sheet · GBD 2021 · who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/adolescent-mental-health
Three doors
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249states
Atlas
A world map with a card for every country, and the same numbers as a plain table. No score, no ranking, and "no data" is never shown as zero.
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5profiles
Voices
Young people interviewed for this site, anonymous, drawn rather than photographed, in their own words.
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9chapters
Your rights
What your country promised you, in plain language: the treaty, the article, the line it comes from, where it tends to fail, and what you can ask for. Not every chapter is open yet; the contents page says which.
From the Atlas
| Band | Colour | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| band 1 of 5 | lowest on the layer | |
| band 2 of 5 | below the middle | |
| band 3 of 5 | the middle | |
| band 4 of 5 | above the middle | |
| band 5 of 5 | highest on the layer | |
| no data | a hatch, never a colour, and never zero |
The line under each band thickens with it, so the order reads without colour. Each layer prints its own band thresholds beside the map. No colour for modelled prevalence.
Published
Ten indicators, every country, each value with its year, type and source.
A country with no value reads "no data", and a value older than its limit says so.
The roll call
5 published
Fifteen young people answered. Five profiles are up so far, and each goes up only after they and Bella have approved it.