India Has the Highest Child Mortality Rate in the World: PRESS
TRUST OF INDIA United Nations Report With almost 19,000 children
under five years of age dying every day across the world, India
tops the list of countries with the highest number of 1,655,000
such deaths in 2011, according to a UN agency. The 'Child
Mortality Estimates Report 2012' released by Unicef in New York
has said that in 2011, around 50 per cent of global under-five
deaths occurred in just five countries of India, Nigeria, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and China.
Incidentally, India's toll is higher than the deaths in Nigeria,
Democratic Republic of Congo and Pakistan put together. While
there have been 756,000 deaths in Nigeria during the last year,
Democratic Republic of the Congo accounts for 465,000 deaths and
Pakistan 352,000 deaths of under-five children during 2011.
China reported 249,000 deaths of under-5 kids last year,
followed by 194,000 by Ethiopia and 134,000 each by Indonesia
and Bangladesh. Uganda with 131,