‘CHILD Lives’ is a new innovative map made by the Pulitzer Center of Crisis Reporting illustrating the extraordinary decline of the rate of child mortality in the world. Using United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) data, the interactive map shows data visualisations created by information designer Dan McCarey.

The map shows Guyana’s 42% gradual decline in the under-five mortality rate, since 1990 to 2012.
The Pulitzer Center is a nonprofit journalism organisation that focuses on international under- reported issues. The map demonstrates that the world has made impressive strides in achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality. UNICEF data cite 90 million lives saved just since 1990.
Attributed to improvements in neonatal and maternal healthcare, treatment of preventable, communicable diseases and other health and development initiatives, children in most counties are surviving their most vulnerable years.
In India, nearly a quarter of the 6.6 million children who died each year before the age of five are there. Since the 1990’s however, its rate of under-five deaths has dropped by more than half.
China has reduced its less than five mortality rate by 74% largely due to its economic growth. Bangladesh has also reduced its rate by 72 percent – the best amongst high-mortality countries. One of its main reasons for this reduction is the jump in the number of infants who are exclusively breast-fed.
Nigeria recorded a 47% reduction while Ethiopia had 67% and Sierra Leone showed 29%. The sub-Saharan Africa region with its continued high birth rate, accounts for nearly half of the under-five deaths in the world, where one in 10 children die before the age of five.
While the statistics for some Third World countries showed improvement, “diseases of poverty” such as pneumonia, diarrhea and malnutrition remain among the leading causes of early childhood death in the world.

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