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The under-five mortality rate for the world is 39 deaths according to the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO). 5.3 million children under age five died in 2018, 14,722 every day. [1] [2] [3] The infant mortality rate is the number of deaths of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births. This rate is often used as an ...
Child mortality is the death of children under the ... About 80 percent of these occur in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and just 6 countries account for half of ...
Crude mortality rate refers to the number of deaths over a given period divided by the person-years lived by the population over that period. It is usually expressed in units of deaths per 1,000 individuals per year. The list is based on CIA World Factbook 2023 estimates, unless indicated otherwise.
Overall, deaths in babies and children under-5 in 2022 were concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, which represented 57% of the global total despite only making up 30% of the live births that year.
Malnutrition can lead to an onslaught of additional health complications, [8] and eventually even death. [9] In fact, UNICEF found that 11.4% of deaths of South African children under five can be attributed to low weight, making low birth weight the second most prominent cause of children's death in South Africa. [10]
Worldwide, substantial progress has been made in the effort to reduce child mortality. The number of under-5 deaths in the world has declined from nearly 12 million in 1990 to 6.9 million in 2011; and the global under-five mortality rate has dropped 41 per cent since 1990 – from 87 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 51 in 2011. [4]
Infant mortality is the death of an infant before the infant's ... worldwide and was highest in low to middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia ...
South African health targets for 2014 include: Reducing child mortalities to less than 20 deaths per 1,000 live births; To decrease the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to 100 or less per 100 000 live births [11] The Thula Baba Box has the potential to aid the Health Care system achieving these targets in the future. [12]