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The Global Child Mortality Rate Has Dropped 47% Since 1990
New estimates of child mortality were released today by the UN Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation(UN IGME), and show the global child (under-five) mortality rate has dropped 47 percent since 1990 - from 90 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990, to 48 in 2012. This decline represents substantial progress, but the rate of decline remains insufficient to reach Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) of a two-thirds reduction in 1990 levels by 2015.
Via the World Bank Open Data Blog. Data from the World Development Indicators.
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