{"id":85041,"date":"2020-09-10T14:13:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T08:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=17368"},"modified":"2020-09-10T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T08:43:14","slug":"indias-child-mortality-rate-declined-between-1990-and-2019-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-child-mortality-rate-declined-between-1990-and-2019-un\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s child mortality rate declined between 1990 and 2019: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: \u201c<\/strong>The Levels and Trends in Child Mortality: Report 2020\u201d has been released by UNICEF, WHO, Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the World Bank Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Globally: <\/strong>The number of global under-five deaths has dropped to its lowest point on record in 2019 \u2013 down to 5.2 million from 12.5 million in 1990.<\/li><li><strong>Region wise: <\/strong>The regions of Central and Southern Asia and Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand) saw a faster decline in under-five mortality from 2010-2019 compared to 2000-2009.However, the global burden of under-five deaths weighs most heavily on just two regions &#8211; sub-Saharan Africa and Central and Southern Asia.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>India Specific Data:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The<strong> <\/strong>under-five mortality rate has declined to 34 in 2019 from 126 in 1990.The sex-specific under-five mortality rate in 1990 stood at 122 males and 131 females and this declined to 34 males and 35 females in 2019.<\/li><li>The infant mortality rate has declined from 89 in 1990 to 28 in 2019,<\/li><li>The neonatal mortality rate has declined from 57 in 1990 to 22 in 2019.<\/li><li>The probability of dying among children aged 5\u201314 years declined from 21 in 1990 to 5 in 2019.<\/li><li>The probability of dying among youth aged 15\u201324 years dipped from 24 in 1990 to 10 in 2019.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Under-five mortality rate: <\/strong>Probability of dying between birth and five years of age expressed per 1,000 live births.<\/li><li><strong>Neonatal Mortality: <\/strong>Number of deaths during the first 28 completed days of life per 1,000 live births in a given year or period.<\/li><li><strong>Infant mortality rate(IMR)<\/strong>: It is the number of deaths of children under one year of age per 1000 live births.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: \u201cThe Levels and Trends in Child Mortality: Report 2020\u201d has been released by UNICEF, WHO, Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the World Bank Group. Facts: Key Takeaways: Globally: The number of global under-five deaths has dropped to its lowest point on record in 2019 \u2013 down&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-child-mortality-rate-declined-between-1990-and-2019-un\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India&#8217;s child mortality rate declined between 1990 and 2019: UN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[2173],"class_list":["post-85041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-levels-and-trends-in-child-mortality","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704795737},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85041","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}