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There are approximately 6 300 newborn deaths every day, amounting to nearly 47% of all child deaths under the age of 5-years. Unfortunately, survival gains have stalled significantly since 2015, and 59 countries will fall short of meeting the SDG target for under-5 mortality and 64 countries will not achieve the SDG target for neonatal mortality.
Dec 19, 2018 · This report details the 10 leading causes for the 20,360 deaths of children and adolescents in the United States in 2016. The analysis also includes trends over time and comparisons among...
Jun 13, 2023 · Children are dying at the highest rate in 13 years. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The share of children and teens who die each year declined for nearly three decades and leveled off in the 2010s. Then, in 2020, the rate began to increase. By 2021, it reached its highest rate since 2008.
Children ages 1–4 years. Number of deaths: 4,156. Deaths per 100,000 population: 28.0. Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality data (2022) via CDC WONDER.
2. The annual death toll among children, adolescents and youth remains unacceptably high. Of the 4.9 million under-five deaths in 2022, 2.3 million occurred during the first month of life and 2.6 million children died between the ages of 1 and 59 months. The lives of an additional 2.1 million children, adolescents and youth ages
Since then, child mortality has plummeted across the world. By 2020, the global average had declined to 4.3%. This dramatic decline has resulted from better nutrition, clean water, sanitation, neonatal healthcare, vaccinations, medicines, and reductions in poverty, conflicts, and famine.
Mar 13, 2024 · The number of children who died before their fifth birthday has reached a historic low, dropping to 4.9 million in 2022, according to the latest estimates released today by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
life-saving interventions and services for children and women during the pandemic to ensure hard-won gains in combating child mortality were not lost. Now, the availability of empirical mortality data – reported birth, death and population counts from vital registration systems or health information systems in over 80 countries or
Mar 12, 2024 · Neonatal deaths accounted for 72 million of those under-five deaths, while 91 million deaths occurred among children aged 1–59 months. And nearly 53 million stillbirths took place between 2000 and 2021 – deaths that are often missed by policymakers and in programme actions and data collection.
Dec 12, 2021 · The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) produces estimates of child and adolescent mortality annually, reconciling the differences across data sources and taking into account the systematic biases associated with the various types of data on child and adolescent mortality.
