ECN 503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Breastfeeding, Underweight, Standard Deviation
9 May 2016
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Under -5 mortality rate: probability of a child born in a specific year or period dying before reaching the age of five. How it is computed: under - 5 mortality rate is the probability of death derived from a life table and expressed as rate per 1,000 live births. Under -5 mortality rate is a leading indicator of the level of child health and overall development in countries. It is also a millennium development goals (mdg) indicator. According to united nations (un) data: 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. Every day in 2015, 16,000 children under five continue to die, mostly from preventable causes. Un millennium development goal beyond 2015: child survival must remain a focus of the new sustainable development agenda.
