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In Ethiopia’s 2024-25 EDHS, 36.3% (95% CI 33.4–39.3) of children aged 24–59 months are developmentally on track, ranging from 23.3% in Southwest Regional State to 77.7% in Addis Ababa.
- Why it matters: The survey fills a gap by providing Ethiopia’s first national SDG 4.2.1 estimate of early childhood development and identifying which child, maternal, household, and community factors are linked to being on track.
- What they did: Using UNICEF’s ECDI2030 milestones, the study analyzed 3,731 children (weighted n = 3,514) from 3,232 mothers across 771 clusters, estimating prevalence and fitting four three-level mixed-effects logistic regression models.
- The result: Being on track is linked to younger age (AOR 0.57 for 36–47 months; AOR 0.39 for 48–59 months), shorter birth intervals, recent diarrhoea/fever/cough, and big distance-to-facility problems, while girls, maternal education, and weekly media exposure show higher odds.
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