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The first 28 days of life – the neonatal period – is the most vulnerable time for a child’s survival. Children face the highest risk of dying in their first month of life at an average global rate of 17 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2022, down by 53 per cent from 37 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990. In comparison, the probability of dying after the first month and before reaching ...
Deaths in the first month of life, which are mostly preventable, represent 46 per cent of total deaths among children under five in 2021. While mortality among children under five declines globally, deaths among these children are becoming more concentrated in the first days of life. This makes the focus on newborn care more critical than ever before. In 2021, an estimated 2.3 million children ...
Yet we are far from our goal of ending preventable newborn deaths and stillbirths by 2030. Half of all under-5 deaths still occur in the first month of life, and 2 million stillbirths occur every year. Times of health crises – such as the COVID-19 pandemic – reveal the weaknesses of health systems and threaten to turn back a decade of hard ...
Percentage of women (aged 20-24 years) married or in union before age 18. Percentage of children (aged 5-17 years) engaged in child labour (economic activities and household chores) Percentage of children (aged 1-14 years) who experienced any physical punishment and/or psychological aggression by caregivers.
Maternal mortality declined by 34 per cent between 2000 and 2020 Maternal mortality refers to deaths due to complications from pregnancy or childbirth. From 2000 to 2020, the global maternal mortality ratio (MMR) declined by 34 per cent – from 339 deaths to 223 deaths per 100,000 live births, according to UN inter-agency estimates. This translates into an average annual rate of reduction of ...
Yet 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 5–24 were ...
Neonatal mortality; Under-5 mortality; Child and youth mortality, ages 5-24; Child survival and the SDGs; CHILD NUTRITION. Child malnutrition; Women’s nutrition; Low birthweight; Infant and young child feeding; Breastfeeding; Diets; Iodine; Vitamin A; POVERTY; PROTECTION. Birth registration; Child labour; Child marriage; Female genital ...
Neonatal mortality rate: Nepal’s neonatal mortality rate (NMR)^ is 22 deaths per 1,000 live births.3 NMR in rural areas is 24 deaths per 1,000 live births and 15 deaths per 1,000 live births in urban areas for an urban-to-rural ratio of 1.1.2 NMR among the poorest households is 32 neonatal deaths per 1,000 live births, compared to 14 deaths ...
Predischarge neonatal death: A death of a baby (day 0–27) born at a health facility but not yet discharged home Perinatal death includes late gestation stillbirths and early neonatal deaths. Predischarge perinatal death includes late gestation stillbirths and predischarge neonatal deaths Note: Spontaneous pregnancy loss at <22+0 weeks gestation
In 2015, the world began working toward a new global development agenda, seeking to achieve, by 2030, new targets set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The proposed SDG target for child mortality aims to end, by 2030, preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 deaths per 1,000 ...