Bhutan

Bhutan

Bhutan is a landlocked country in South Asia with a land area of 38,394 square kilometers and is one of the smallest countries in the world. The population of Bhutan is 771,612 of which 53 percent are men and 47 percent are women. Bhutan signed the Convention on the Rights of the Children (CRC) on the 4th of June 1990 and ratified it on the 1st of August 1990. Children and adolescents amount to 34 percent of the population.

The Bhutanese nationality is difficult to obtain unless both parents are from Bhutan. Hence, some children in Bhutan are considered stateless which means they do not enjoy the same rights as citizens.