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Key successes
and challenges
Andrew Waddell, Zac Collins, Jordan Shultz
Due to the improvement from 1990 to 2008,
the Millennium Development Goals
organisation was encouraged to set Child
Mortality goals higher in 2015.
Step 1: Reduce global measles
Vaccinations:
Numbers of Vaccinations
were improved. Within 8
years.
Fact sheet - More than 99 million children under age five are
still undernourished and underweight.
- Since 1990, the mortality rate for children under age five
in developing countries dropped by 28 per cent
- Globally, the total number of under-five deaths declined
from 12.5 million in 1990 to 8.8 million in 2008
- This means that, in 2008, 10,000 fewer children died
each day than in 1990
- An encouraging sign is the acceleration of progress after
the year 2000: the average annual rate of decline
increased to 2.3 per cent for the period 2000 to 2008,
compared to 1.4 per cent in the 1990s.
- among the 67 countries with high child mortality rates
(defined as 40 or more deaths per 1,000 live births), only
10 are on track to meet the MDG target on child survival
- The highest rates of child mortality continue to be found
in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2008, one in seven children
there died before their fifth birthday
- All 34 countries with under-five mortality rates
exceeding 100 per 1,000 live births in 2008 are in sub-
Saharan Africa, except Afghanistan
Thankyou

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Reduce child mortality

  • 1. Key successes and challenges Andrew Waddell, Zac Collins, Jordan Shultz
  • 2. Due to the improvement from 1990 to 2008, the Millennium Development Goals organisation was encouraged to set Child Mortality goals higher in 2015.
  • 3. Step 1: Reduce global measles Vaccinations: Numbers of Vaccinations were improved. Within 8 years.
  • 4. Fact sheet - More than 99 million children under age five are still undernourished and underweight. - Since 1990, the mortality rate for children under age five in developing countries dropped by 28 per cent - Globally, the total number of under-five deaths declined from 12.5 million in 1990 to 8.8 million in 2008 - This means that, in 2008, 10,000 fewer children died each day than in 1990 - An encouraging sign is the acceleration of progress after the year 2000: the average annual rate of decline increased to 2.3 per cent for the period 2000 to 2008, compared to 1.4 per cent in the 1990s. - among the 67 countries with high child mortality rates (defined as 40 or more deaths per 1,000 live births), only 10 are on track to meet the MDG target on child survival - The highest rates of child mortality continue to be found in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2008, one in seven children there died before their fifth birthday - All 34 countries with under-five mortality rates exceeding 100 per 1,000 live births in 2008 are in sub- Saharan Africa, except Afghanistan