this means that one in six children is extremely poor and the scourge of poverty affects more than million children and adolescents see figure and table ii these children experience one or more severe deprivations in terms of dwellings with unsafe construction materials and overcrowding lack of access to drinking water or sanitation facilities in the home general andor chronic undernutrition lack of access to the education system children who have never attended school or lack of access to communication and information systems including lack of electricity in the home an average of children in countries with the highest total child poverty levels el salvador guatemala honduras nicaragua peru and the plurinational state of bolivia were extremely poor million in these six countries among the countries with the lowest total child poverty levels argentina chile costa rica ecuador and uruguay a simple average of of children were extremely poor million