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8 Million More Kids Now Reach Age 5 Every Year 🎂 #Shorts #LessonToday
Three takeaways
- In 1990, about 13 million children around the world died before their fifth birthday.
- By 2023 that number had fallen to about 4.8 million, almost two thirds fewer, according to the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME:…
- The global under-five mortality rate fell from 77 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2000 to 37 in 2023, a 52% drop.
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