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“Levels and Trends in Child Mortality: Report 2018”
September 20 , 2018
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- ‘UNICEF’ and ‘UN Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation’ (UN IGME) has released the “Levels and Trends in Child Mortality: Report 2018”, which shows the full scope of child and mortality rates across the world.
- According to the report, the Sub-Saharan Africa region had the highest under-five mortality rate in the world.
- In 2017, the region had an average under-five mortality rate of 76 deaths per 1,000 live births.
- In India, the death of children below the age of 5 years has reduced from nearly 22% in 2012 to 18% in 2017, and is below one million mark, for the first time (9,89,000).
- About 8,02,000 infant deaths were reported in India in 2017, the lowest in 5 years.
- But, India still leads the world in Infant deaths, followed by Nigeria, Pakistan and Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Globally, an estimation of 6.3 million children aged younger then 15 years died in 2017, or the equivalent of one child in every 5 seconds.
- The report notes that more than 80% of all the deaths, or 5.4 million, occur in children in their first 5 years of life.
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