{"id":358607,"date":"2026-03-20T17:16:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=358607"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:46:01","slug":"unigme-report-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/unigme-report-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIGME Report 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The UNIGME Report 2025 was recently released, highlighting global and India-specific progress in reducing child mortality rates.<\/p>\n<h2>About UNIGME Report 2025<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>global report<\/strong> that <strong>tracks levels and trends in child mortality<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Released by: <\/strong>It is released by the <strong>United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME),<\/strong> led by <strong>UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank, and UN DESA.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Title<\/strong><em>: <\/em>The report is titled <em>\u201c<\/em><strong>Levels and Trends in Child Mortality 2025.<\/strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Findings (Global Trend)<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Global Burden of Deaths<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Global <strong>under-five deaths<\/strong> were about <strong>9 million in 2024,<\/strong> including <strong>2.3 million newborn deaths.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Around <strong>1 million children, adolescents, and youth aged 5<\/strong><strong>\u2013<\/strong><strong>24 years<\/strong> died in 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trend in Mortality Reduction<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Under-five deaths have declined by more than half since 2000.<\/li>\n<li>The pace of reduction has slowed by more than 60% since 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Regional distribution<\/strong>: Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 58% of global under-five deaths in 2024.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Causes of Death<\/strong>: Major causes include preterm birth complications, infections, pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, and malnutrition.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Malnutrition Impact<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Malnutrition caused about 5% of deaths among children aged 1\u201359 months in 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Countries with the <strong>highest direct malnutrition deaths<\/strong> are <strong>Pakistan, Somalia, and Sudan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Findings Related to India<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Decline in Mortality Rates<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Under-five mortality <strong>declined from 127 in 1990 to 26.6 in 2024, <\/strong>showing a <strong>79% reduction.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Infant mortality reduced to 23.3,<\/strong> and <strong>neonatal mortality declined to 17 in 2024.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Drivers of Improvement<\/strong>: Progress is driven by programmes such <strong>as Janani Suraksha Yojana, Universal Immunisation Programme, and Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses (IMNCI).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Regional Contribution<\/strong>: India has played a key role in reducing child mortality in South Asia through targeted public health interventions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The UNIGME Report 2025 was recently released, highlighting global and India-specific progress in reducing child mortality rates. About UNIGME Report 2025 It is a global report that tracks levels and trends in child mortality. Released by: It is released by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), led by UNICEF,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/unigme-report-2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UNIGME Report 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-358607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}