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| Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate |
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In child survival, progress has been significant, with the number of deaths among
children under 5 years old reduced from 12.5 million
in 1990 to less than 9 million (8.8) in 2008. However,
an average of 25,000 children under five are still
dying each day, mostly from causes preventable
with low-cost, proven interventions.
Pneumonia and diarrhoeal diseases are the biggest killers of children under five,
accounting for almost 40 per cent of deaths for
this age cohort.
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| Source: Inter-agency
Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, World
Health Organization, United Nations Population Division
and the World Bank) |
Reference:
http://www.unicef.org/rightsite/sowc/pdfs/SOWC_Spec%20Ed_CRC_Main%20Report_EN_090409.pdf |
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