- A new report from UNICEF and its partners in the Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME), Levels and Trends in Child Mortality: Report 2017, shows the full scope of child and newborn mortality across the world.
- Over the past 25 years, the world has made significant progress in saving young children’s lives.
- The rate of child mortality fell 62 per cent from 1990–2016, with under-five deaths dropping from 12.7 million to 5.6 million.
- In addition to global estimates for under-five, infant and newborn mortality, the report for the first time contains estimates on mortality among children aged 5-14.
- In 2016 alone, 7,000 newborn babies died every day. Newborn deaths made up 46 per cent of all child deaths, an increase from 41 per cent in 2000.
- Most of these deaths are entirely preventable.
- Prematurity, complications during labour and birth, and infections like sepsis, pneumonia, tetanus and diarrhoea are among the leading causes – all of which can be treated or prevented with simple, affordable solutions.
- Globally, the under-five mortality rate has dropped by more than half (1990-2016), but inequities persist among and within countries.
- Under-five mortality rate: probability of dying between birth and exactly five years of age, expressed per 1,000 live births.Under-five mortality rate: probability of dying between birth and exactly five years of age, expressed per 1,000 live births.
- Newborn mortality is not decreasing as quickly as the mortality among children aged 1 to 59 months
Neonatal mortality rate: probability of dying between birth and 28 days of age, expressed per 1,000 live births.
Globally, the under-five mortality rate dropped to 41 (39, 44) deaths per 1,000 live births in 2016 from 93 (92, 95) in 1990 – a 56 (53, 58) per cent decline.
in Indian scenario-
- The largest number of newborn deaths occurred in Southern Asia (39 per cent), followed by subSaharan Africa (38 per cent). Five countries accounted for half of all newborn deaths: India, Pakistan, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ethiopia.
- At the country level, half of all neonatal deaths are concentrated in fve countries, namely, India (24 per cent), Pakistan (10 per cent), Nigeria (9 per cent), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (4 per cent) and Ethiopia (3 per cent).
- India and Pakistan alone accounted for about a third of all newborn deaths.
Reference:-
https://data.unicef.org/resources/levels-trends-child-mortality/
https://www.unicef.org/publications/files/Child_Mortality_Report_2017.pdf