Childmortality.org Website Review

Globally, substantial progress has been made in reducing child mortality since 1990. The under-five mortality rate should be declined by 58 per cent since 1990, and the number of under-five deaths dropped from 12.6 million in 1990 to 5.4 million in 2017. An estimated 2.5 million gi*ls and 2.9 million boys under age five died in 2017, while the number of countries showing significant gender The majority of deaths under age 15 occur at the youngest ages. Eighty-five per cent of the 6.3 million deaths among children aged 0-14 in 2017 occurred in the first five years of life, and about half of the 5.4 million under-five deaths in 2017 occurred in the first Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region with highest under-five and neonatal mortality rates in the world. A child born in sub-Saharan Africa is nine times more likely to die in the first month of life and 14 times more likely to die before reaching age five than a child born On current trends, 56 million will die between 2018 and 2030 - half of them will be newborns. The world has halved the mortality rate among children aged 5-14 since 1990, still, almost 1 million children and young adolescents Globally, deaths among children aged 5-9 accounted for 61 per cent of all deaths of children aged 5-14 in 2017. On current trends, 51 countries will not achieve the SDG target on under-five mortality and more than 60 countries will not achieve the SDG target on neonatal mortality by 2030 - if progress was accelerated to meet the targets in these countries, 10 million under-five deaths CME INFO is a web portal containing all available data and the latest child mortality estimates for each country based on the research of The UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation released the latest estimates on child mortality among children under age 5 and An overview on the methodology used to generate the estimates is available in this year's UN IGME report A more detailed explanation of the B3 model used in developing the UN IGME child mortality estimates is available here