More than 5.0 million children under age 5, including 2.3 million newborns, along with 2.1 million children and youth aged 5 to 24 years — 43 per cent of whom are adolescents — died in 2021, according to a report released by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.
“Every day, far too many parents are facing the trauma of losing their children, sometimes even before their first breath,” Vidhya Ganesh, the Unicef’s director of the Division of Data Analytics, Planning and Monitoring, said in a statement issued on Tuesday.
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“Such widespread, preventable tragedy should never be accepted as inevitable. Progress is possible with stronger political will and targeted investment in equitable access to primary health care for every woman and child.”
The report show some positive outcomes with a lower risk of death across all ages globally since 2000.
