Statistics on Child and Infant Mortality

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Over the last centuries and decades, there has been tremendous improvements and child mortality rates have dropped everywhere in the world:

 

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However, there’s still a long way to go, especially in developing countries. From the following graph we can see that in several African countries as well as in India, 1 in 10 babies die before they reach the age of 1. That’s horrendous.

Inequalities are extreme: Angola had the highest IMR in 2007: 184. And Sweden the lowest: 2.8. In a country like Bangladesh, 153,000 newborns die each year. Multiply this with the number of non-newborns death before the age of 1, and with a number of similar countries, and with a number of consecutive years, and you have an enormous massacre.