Bangladesh registers 75% decline in child mortality rate

Bangladesh registers 75% decline in child mortality rate

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Category : International Published on: January 12 2023

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Bangladesh has registered a sharp decline of over 75 percent in the under-5 child mortality rate since 1990, says the just released report prepared at the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on behalf of the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
In 1990, the under-5 child mortality rate was 146 per thousand live births which declined to 86 in 2000 and 27 in 2021 which works out to be 5.4 percent annual decline in the under-5 child mortality rate consistently over 3 decades.
The infant mortality rate also declined from 101 deaths per thousand live births in 1990 to 23 deaths per thousand live births in 2021.
The report shows that more children and youth died in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia than all other regions in 2021.

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