Roderic O’Gorman TD today published the 2024 edition of the State of the Nation’s Children (SONC) report.
Some of the key findings in the report include:
• In 2024, it is estimated that there were 1,232,714 children living in Ireland. This accounted for 22.9% of the total population. Of these 630,743 children were male and 601,971 were female.
• In 2022, 81.9% of children aged 10–17 reported finding it easy to talk to their mother when something is really bothering them, a small decrease since 2018 (83.3%). While 70.2% of children aged 10–17 reported finding it easy to talk to their father when something is really bothering them, a slight increase since 2018 (67.9%).
• In 2022, 35.8% of children aged 15 reported that reading is one of their favourite hobbies, an increase since 2018 (30.8%).
• In 2022, 28.6% of children aged 10–17 reported having been bullied at school in the past couple of months, a slight decrease from 31.1% in 2018.
•In 2022, 78.5% of children aged 10–17 reported being happy with their lives at present. This represents a significant decrease from 88.2% in 2018.
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