Via GOOD and Quartz: ” That bullying is both a terrible and all too common feature of childhood is beyond question. But a recent report put out by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) seeks not only to address the social and developmental realities of children around the world, but indexes exactly where in the world kids reported experiencing the most bullying.  In “Skills for Social Progress: The Power of Social and Emotional Skills,” OECD pulled data from a 2009-2010 World Health Organization survey, published in 2012, which asked children ages 11, 13, and 15 about having been bullied multiple times in the previous several months. What they found was that for the years in question, nearly one in 10 boys worldwide reported having been bullied, with Austrian boys experiencing the most harassment, and Swedish ones, the least. Eleven percent of American boys reported incidents of bullying, compared to 15 percent of their Canadian neighbors to the north.”

• “Skills for Social Progress – The Power of Social and Emotional Skills” DOI:10.1787/9789264226159-en. This report presents a synthesis of OECD’s empirical work that aims at identifying the types of social and emotional skills that drive children’s future outcomes.”