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Although global attention to adolescent well-being has grown over the past decade, efforts to measure it remain fragmented, sector specific, and include a greater number of indicators of risks and negative outcomes compared to positive well-being. To address these challenges, the World Health Organization, in collaboration with the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and other United Nations (UN) partners, developed new measurement guidance to support countries in assessing adolescent well-being in a holistic, multisectoral way across the five domains of the UN\u2019s consensus Adolescent Well-being Framework (AWF) focused on health and nutrition, connectedness, safety, learning, and agency and resilience. This article describes the process and results of the guidance development. 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