Every day in 2016, 15 000 childrendied before their fifth birthday, 46% of them – or 7 000 babies – died in the first 28 days of life, according to a new UN report.
Levels and Trends in Child Mortality 2017, reveals that although the number of children dying before the age of five is at a new low– 5.6 million in 2016, compared with nearly 9.9 million in 2000 – the proportion of under-five deaths in the newborn period has increased from 41% to 46% during the same period.
“The lives of 50 million children under-five have been saved since 2000, a testament to the serious commitment by governments and development partners to tackle preventable child deaths,” said UNICEFChief of Health, Stefan Swartling Peterson.
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这是政府和发展伙伴对解决可预防的儿童死亡所作庄严承诺的佐证。
“But unless we do more to stop babies from dying the day they are born, or days after their birth, this progress will remain incomplete.
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但是，除非我们作出更多努力来阻止婴儿在出生之日或出生数日后死亡，否则这一进展依然不够完备。
We have the knowledge and technologies that are required – we just need to take them where they are most needed.”
At current trends, 60 million children will die before their fifth birthday between 2017 and 2030, half of them newborns, according to the report released by UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the Population Division of UNDESA which make up the Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME).
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大多数新生儿死亡发生在两个地区：南亚（39%）和撒哈拉以南非洲（38%）。
Most newborn deaths occurred in two regions: Southern Asia (39%) and sub-Saharan Africa (38%).