According to a recently published report, world death rates for children under 5 have dropped significantly between 1970 and 2010. The study, which included data from over 187 countries, sounds encouraging, but it seems that child mortality is still not a thing of the past; it is expected that, worldwide, 7.7 million children will die this year. On the other hand, as bleak as this sounds, it is still an improvement from 1990’s figure of 11.9 million.
It would seem that, on average, world death rates have dropped by 2 percent a year since 1990; and even in areas where the average American would expect to hear about the worst child death rates, such as Latin America, North Africa, and the Middle East, there have been declines as much as 6 percent a year.
Health experts have stated that the reason behind the drop could be vaccines, Aids medicines, better pneumonia and diarrhea treatments, vitamin A supplements, more education for women, or bug nets for beds to prevent malaria. In short, the consensus among experts seems to be that the global efforts to help save children have started to pay off not only better, but also faster than was expected.
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