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World Summit for Children

Goal 3
For children and development in the 1990s

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Reduce severe and moderate under-5 malnutrition by 50%

 

Trend

17% reduction in developing countries

1990

32% in developing countries

2000

27% in developing countries

2010 goal

33% reduction,with special attention to children under two

Comments

The total number of malnourished children in developing countries fell from 177 million to 149 million.


 

   
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Levels of iodized salt consumption, 1995-2000

 
   
   
   
   

Sources:United Nations,Report of the 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 Spec al Session of the General Assembly on Children, ‘A world fit for children ’, Rev sed draft outcome document A/AC-256/ CRP.6/Rev.3 ,United Nations,New York, June 2001.

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