MDG #4: Reduce Child Mortality TARGET 4. A Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
MDG #4 OVERVIEW
Poverty is heartbreaking for a number of reasons. One of the hardest is how negatively it affects vulnerable people, especially children. Tragically, many poverty-related deaths result from causes that are preventable or treatable. More than 1200 children die every hour from these preventable causes. In wealthy countries, one out of every 143 children dies before age five. However, in poor countries, this number jumps to one in every 10 children. 1 Thanks to the progress of the international community, 17,000 fewer children die each day now than in 1990. 2 But even one child dying is one too many.
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JCI MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS REPORT