Child Mortality
A Child Mortality is a Developing Countries that ...
- See: Sustainable Development Goals, Developing Countries, Infant Mortality, United Nations, Millennium Development Goals, Sub-Saharan Africa.
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2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_mortality Retrieved:2017-8-1.
- Child mortality, also known as under-5 mortality or child death, refers to the death of infants and children under the age of five or between the age of one month to four years depending on the definition. Many deaths in developing countries go unreported since many poor families cannot afford to register their babies in the government registry. A child's death is emotionally hard on the parents and on their relationship as a couple.
The same causes and preventative measures that apply to infant mortality (i.e. for children younger than one year old) also apply to understanding child mortality.
Reduction of child mortality is the fourth of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. Rapid progress towards the Millennium Development Goals has resulted in a significant decline in preventable child deaths since 1990, with the global under-5 mortality rate declining by nearly half over this time period. While in 1990, 12.7 million children under age five died, in 2013 that number fell to 6.3 million children. However, despite advances, at the current pace the world will not meet the MDG target until 2026.
Globally in 2013, 3.7 million children aged one month to 4 years of age died, down from 7.6 million in 1990. About half of child deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa. Reduction of child mortality is the fourth of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals which were replaced in 2015 by the Sustainable Development Goals. In 2015 an estimated 5.9 million children died before their fifth birthday, 45% of them during the first 28 days of life.
- Child mortality, also known as under-5 mortality or child death, refers to the death of infants and children under the age of five or between the age of one month to four years depending on the definition. Many deaths in developing countries go unreported since many poor families cannot afford to register their babies in the government registry. A child's death is emotionally hard on the parents and on their relationship as a couple.