Indicator: Infant Mortality per 1,000 live births
Target: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.
Increased and diversified agricultural production is one of the most reliable, sustainable interventions to improve nutrition and reduce child malnutrition and mortality. More children die before the age of five in rural areas than in urban ones. About half of these deaths are due to malnutrition. Learn more »
This map identifies countries according to the rate of child mortality. Move your mouse over a country to display the number of children that die out of every 1,000 births.
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