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What is the number today?",[99],"uk 0.67",[101],"uk 0.38","Today, around 4% of children die before the age of 5 worldwide.","Today, a child almost anywhere in the world has a better chance of making it to their fifth birthday than they did 30 years ago.","Most people don’t realize that today a child almost anywhere in the world has a better chance of making it to their fifth birthday than they did 30 years ago.","Source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation","The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), whose estimates we use as a source for this question includes members from UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Population Division, and the World Bank Group. \n\nUnder-five mortality rate is the probability per 1,000 that a newborn baby will die before reaching age five, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of the specified year.\n\nUN IGME’s preferred source of data is a country’s civil registry system. If there is not a robust enough civil registry system then data from a thorough sample survey is generally used. UNIGME writes in its explanatory notes: “...in the developing world, most countries do not have well-functioning vital registration systems, and household surveys, such as the UNICEF-supported Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), the USAID-supported Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and periodic population censuses have become the primary source of data on under-five and infant mortality in developing countries.”\n\nThere is a 90% uncertainty interval in the global estimate we use, which is lower than the usual 95%. Even with the uncertainty, the trend still shows a clear decline in under-5 deaths. The three independent experts we consulted about this question all said they considered the UNIGME estimates to be reliable.\n\n[1]  [UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation - Most Recent stillbirth, child and adolescent mortality estimates](UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation - Most Recent stillbirth, child and adolescent mortality estimates)  \n[2]  [UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation - Level & Trends in Child Mortality 2020 Report](https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.who.int\u002Fmedia\u002Fdocs\u002Fdefault-source\u002Fmca-documents\u002Fchild\u002Flevels-and-trends-in-child-mortality-igme-english_2020_.pdf?sfvrsn=ad8e0376_1&download=true)  \n[3]  [UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation - Explanatory Notes\nChild mortality trend series to 2018](https:\u002F\u002Fchildmortality.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2019\u002F09\u002FUNIGME-Explanatory-Notes_ENGLISH.pdf)  ","Millions of more children would be dying every year if there hadn’t been any improvements to things like delivery and postnatal care since 1990. After all, around half of the under 5s who die are newborn babies.\n\nThe fact millions of children still die when they are so young is shocking, particularly because they typically die for reasons that are entirely preventable, such as pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria. Children who don’t get enough to eat are far more likely to die from these conditions.\n\nIt is important to recognize the progress that has been made, but there is still more that has to be done. We know that 49 per cent of all under-5 deaths in 2019 occurred in just five countries (Nigeria, India, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ethiopia), so solutions could and should continue to be targeted in those places.\n\nThe good news is, these are often things that we know how to do, such as childbirth delivery care, vaccinations, having malaria nets and regular health visits for children to check they are weighing and growing as much as they should be.\n\n### Why is it a problem that people are wrong about this?\nThe failure to recognize the progress that has already happened makes it harder to continue to push for even more improvements that could save the lives of millions of babies and young children.\n\n### Why are people wrong about this?\nBecause they care that young children are dying. They are right to be horrified by the death of young children in poorer countries and don’t want it to be trivialized. The deaths that didn’t happen don’t get reported on and are harder for people to recognize.\n\n### Can I trust this fact?\nYes, but be aware though, they are estimates with varying levels of quality and different types of data sources in different countries.There is a 90% uncertainty interval, which is lower than the usual 95%. UN IGME says this has been chosen on purpose though, to create a more meaningful summary. Even with the uncertainty, the trend still shows a clear decline in under-5 deaths. The three independent experts we consulted about this question all said they considered the UNIGME estimates to be reliable.\n\n### Discover more\nSee the changes in child mortality by country over time in [Gapminder’s bubble charts.](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Ftools\u002F#$model$markers$bubble$encoding$y$data$concept=child_mortality_0_5_year_olds_dying_per_1000_born&space@=country&=time;;&scale$domain:null&zoomed:null&type:null;;;;;;&chart-type=bubbles&url=v1)","Preventable deaths are being prevented!"]