New Zealand given 'F for failure' on child obesity and youth suicide in Unicef report

Woeful' result puts country in bottom 15% for overall child wellbeing which Ardern says reflects previous government's underinvestment

Unicef says New Zealand is failing children after a new report revealed the country's poor childhood obesity and suicide statistics have pushed it to near the very bottom on child wellbeing.

The latest Unicef Innocenti report card shows that, out of 41 developed countries in the OECD and European Union, New Zealand ranks 35th.