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UN IG for Child Mortality Estimation
March 18 , 2024
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- The Global child deaths reached a historic low in 2022, according to the latest estimates by the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.
- 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.
- Globally, the neonatal deaths, or the death of a baby within 28 days of birth, happened every 14 seconds.
- A child aged under five died every six seconds and an adolescent died every 35 seconds in 2022.
- The report noted a 62 per cent decline in child deaths from the 1990 estimates.
- Between 2000 and 2022, the world lost 221 million children, adolescents, and youth.
- Children younger than 5 comprised 162 million and neonatal deaths accounted for 72 million with most under-five deaths being increasingly concentrated in the neonatal period.
- The trend of under-five deaths has increased in the neonatal period from 41 per cent in 2000 to 47 per cent in 2022.
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