Facts and Figures about Child Survival
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Each year 10.1 million children die worldwide before reaching the age of 5. That’s 28,000 children a day.
Mother Ataur Begum holds her seven-day-old daughter Ayesha. Ayesha is wearing a baby cap provided through Save the Children's Caps to the Capital program, a grassroots effort to engage American knitters and crocheters to use their skills and voice to advocate for increased federal funding for maternal and newborn health and sruvival. - Despite a 60 percent reduction in under-5 child deaths between 1960 and 2000, progress has dramatically slowed or been reversed in many countries.
- One death in every 5 in the world is the death of a child under the age of 5.
- Every minute, a woman meets her death during pregnancy or childbirth.
- Every year, 2 million newborn babies die on the day they are born.
- Nearly all child and maternal deaths (99 percent) occur in developing countries where mothers and children lack access to basic health care services.
- The biggest killers of children worldwide are newborn complications, pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria.
- Using existing tools and knowledge, we could save more than 6 million of the 10 million children who die every year from easily preventable or treatable causes.
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