👶 Child Mortality Has Fallen by More Than Half
Fewer children are dying before their fifth birthday than at any point on record.
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📰 The Good News
The Quiet Global Trend Worth Celebrating
Global child health has been improving for decades, driven by vaccines, cleaner water, and better maternal healthcare reaching more of the world than ever before. According to the World Health Organization and UNICEF, the global rate of children dying before age five has fallen dramatically since 1990.
👶 The global under-5 mortality rate has fallen by well over half since 1990, even as the world's population kept growing.
Progress has held steady across nearly every region of the world, even the ones that started furthest behind — proof that this is a global trend, not a lucky pocket of good news.
👉 Worth Remembering
This is exactly the kind of steady, unglamorous progress that never trends online but quietly reshapes millions of families' lives every single year.
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