Children's Climate Risk Index

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: childrens-climate-risk-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Children's Climate Risk Index (0–10, higher is more risk)is built fromPillar 1: exposure to climate and environmental shocks (0–10)Pillar 2: child vulnerability (0–10)

Every column in the newest file of Children's Climate Risk Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2021	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	163	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	163	0
Children's Climate Risk Index (0–10, higher is more risk)climate_risk_indexHeadline	The headline figure: Children's Climate Risk Index (0–10, higher is more risk).	Number · up to 1 decimal	1.0Iceland8.7Central African Republicmiddle 5.0	64	0
UNICEF rankglobal_rankPublisher’s rank	UNICEF’s own rank, exactly as printed.	Number · whole numbers	1Central African Republic163Icelandmiddle 80	64	0
Pillar 1: exposure to climate and environmental shocks (0–10)climate_environmentPart of the headline	Pillar 1 of the index: how exposed children are to climate and environmental shocks and stresses, scored 0 to 10 by UNICEF.	Number · up to 1 decimal	1.0Iceland9.1Bangladeshmiddle 5.8	62	0
Pillar 2: child vulnerability (0–10)child_vulnerabilityPart of the headline	Pillar 2 of the index: how vulnerable children are, through their health, nutrition, schooling, water and sanitation and poverty, scored 0 to 10 by UNICEF.	Number · up to 1 decimal	0.72 share it9.8Central African Republicmiddle 3.1	71	0
UNICEF risk categoryrisk_categoryLabel	UNICEF's own risk category for the country, from Low to Extremely High.	Text	—	5	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

One edition, covering 163 countries.

Not in this dataset · 62 places this site covers

UNICEF gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBarbadosBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCabo VerdeCayman IslandsChannel IslandsComorosCook IslandsCuraçaoDominicaFaroe IslandsFijiFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamHong KongIsle of ManJamaicaKiribatiKosovoMacauMaldivesMarshall IslandsMauritiusMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSeychellesSingaporeSint MaartenSomalilandTaiwanTimor-LesteTongaTrinidad and TobagoTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNICEF

   unicef.org

2. 2 · Their file

   The Children's Climate Risk Index (CCRI), introduced in “The Climate Crisis is a Child Rights Crisis”, 2021

   all

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: childrens-climate-risk-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/childrens-climate-risk

From UNICEF's data warehouse, where the score is stored in a note beside a category word, and checked against the ranking table in UNICEF's report. UNICEF calls this the first, beta version of the index; small island states are not covered.

• Charted

  Children's Climate Risk Index by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Risk & Resilience
  • Environment & Sustainability

• Near neighbours

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  • INFORM Risk IndexEuropean Commission Joint Research Centre · 10 held · 2017–2026