descriptive claim
Under-5 child mortality halved between 2000 and the early 2020s, from ~76 to ~37 deaths per 1,000 live births globally, though ~4.9M children still die before their fifth birthday each year.
desc_child_mortality_progress
confidence 0.90
Warrants (1)
supports (1)
- UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) 2024 report direct_measurementweight0.95
locator: Under-5 mortality rate, global