Young Lives is a unique longitudinal study of poverty and inequality following the lives of 12,000 children in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), Peru and Vietnam since 2002. 

Over two decades of research, Young Lives has generated unmatched insights into the dynamics of poverty and inequality in the lives of the children, from their early years, through adolescence, and into young adulthood. Our mission is to deliver ground-breaking research that informs policy on how poverty, intersecting inequalities and new vulnerabilities affect the lives of disadvantaged children and young people and what can be done to improve their life outcomes.

We have just published findings from Round 7 of our long running study, including on young people's education and learning, work and family lives, and health and well-being.  

We have also launched a new Young Lives Research Hub on Climate Change and Environmental Shocks, to generate, for the first time, important policy relevant evidence on the long term effects of shocks, including extreme weather, on human development, across the life-course and across two generations of children and young people.