Children's Deaths - A Record Low in 2022

Children's Deaths - A Record Low in 2022

FRANCE 24 English

The number of children worldwide who died before age five reached a record low in 2022, the United Nations said in a report published Tuesday, as for the first time fewer than five million died. According to the estimate, 4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2020, a 51 percent decrease since 2000 and a 62 percent drop since 1990, according to the report, which still warned such progress is 'precarious" and unequal' The report also revealed glaring inequalities across the

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