Global child deaths reach historic low in 2022 – UN report

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2024/03/13/global-child-deaths-reach-historic-low-in-2022-un-report GENEVA/NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, 13 March 2024 – The number of children who died before their fifth birthday has reached a historic low, dropping to 4.9 million in 2022, according to the latest estimates released today by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).