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25,000 The average number of children dying each day is 25,000. |
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| Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate |
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The annual number of global under-five deaths has dropped from 12.5 million in 1990 to less than 9 million in 2008. Even so, an average of 25,000 children under five are 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,
http://www.childinfo.org/sowc_interactive_site/ |
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