Using data primarily from United Nations Statistical Yearbooks, but from other sources as well, this Atlas provides an overview, in graphical form, of issues affecting children in Africa. Some of the issues covered, such as immunization, affect children directly. Others, such as economic progress, are included because they form part of the environment in which children develop and grow. The maps and graphs are divided into the following categories: (1) Background, including independence and alliances, parents and children, and economies; (2) Health, including child mortality, and immunizations; (3) Nutrition, including child malnutrition, and Tanzania's community approach to addressing malnutrition; (4) Water and Sanitation, including hygiene education; (5) Education, including girls' and women's education, and programs in Mali and Zimbabwe; (6) Women, including girls' and women's health, and women in Eritrea's struggle for independence; (7) Children's Environment, including urbanization and children, and land degradation; (8) Emergencies, such as refugees and displaced persons; and (9) Achievable goals, such as immunizations, salt iodization, primary school enrollment, and ratification of the UN convention on the Rights of the Child. A section of sources and definitions concludes the Atlas. (HTH)