2011 Report Levels & Trends in Child Mortality - Estimates
Developed by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality
Estimation NEW YORK/GENEVA, 15 September 2011 – The number of
children under five years of age dying each year declined from
more than 12 million in 1990 to 7.6 million in 2010, UNICEF and
the World Health Organization said today, releasing the latest
estimates on worldwide child mortality. These new figures show
that compared to 1990, around 12,000 more children’s lives are
saved each day. An annual report on child mortality found that
in sub-Saharan Africa, the region with the highest number of
under-five deaths in the world, the speed at which the under-
five mortality rate is declining doubled from 1.2 per cent a
year during 1990-2000 to 2.4 per cent a year during 2000-2010.
“The news that the rate of child mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
is declining twice as fast as it was a decade ago shows that we
can make progress even in the poorest places, but we cannot for
a moment forget the chilli