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Levels and trends in child mortality 2024
April 3 , 2025
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- The United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNIGME) released a data of 2024.
- Between 2000 and 2023, India achieved a 70 per cent decline in the under-five mortality rate and 61 per cent decline in the neonatal mortality rate.
- India is in seventh position among the top 10 countries in the highest reduction of stillbirths in the range of 60-70 percent.
- India has registered a 60.4 per cent reduction between 2000-2023 in comparison to a 37 per cent global reduction in stillbirth.
- Globally, the annual number of global under-five deaths in 2022 declined by more than half from the 2000 estimate- from 9.9 million to 4.9 million.
- Between 2000 and 2022, the world lost 221 million children, adolescents, and youth.
- The trend of under-five deaths has increased in the neonatal period from 41% in 2000 to 47% in 2022.
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