Reduce infant and under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) by 33%

Trend

14% reduction with 3 million fewer child deaths

1990 USMR

94 per 1,000 live births

2000 USMR

81 per 1,000 live births

2010 goal

Further 33%reduction

Comments

63 countries achieved the goal of a 33% reduction and in over 100 countries deaths in children under 5 were cut by 20%.

Sources: United Nations, Report of the Secretary-General, ‘We the Children: End-decade review of the follow-up to the World Summit for Children’, A/S-27/3, United Nations, New York, 4 May 2001; United Nations, Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the General Assembly on Children,‘A world fit for children’, Revised draft outcome document A/AC-256/ CRP.6/Rev. 3, United Nations, New York, June 2001.

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