Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
• Between 1990 and 2015, the global under-five mortality rate has declined by more than half, dropping from 90 to 43 deaths per 1000 live births.
• Between 1990 and 2015, the number of deaths in children under five worldwide declined from 12.7 million in 1990 to almost 6 million in 2015.
• Children in rural areas are about 1.7 times more likely to die before their fifth birthday as those in urban areas.
• Children of mothers with secondary or higher education are almost three times as likely to survive as children of moths with no education.
• While Sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest child mortality rate, the absolute decline in child mortality has been the largest over the past two decades.
• Every day in 2015, 16,000 children under five continue to die, mostly from preventable causes. Child survival must remain a focus of the new sustainable development agenda.
– By UN
