Levels & Trends in Child Mortality

On 17th March 2026, the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) released a report under the title- ‘Levels & Trends in Child Mortality’.

Major Findings from the UNIGME Report

Child Mortality

  • An estimated 4.9 million children died before turning 5 years old in 2024, including 2.3 million newborns.

Causes of Child Mortality

  • Among newborns, deaths are largely caused by prematurity, complications during labour, and neonatal infections.
  • For children aged 1–59 months, pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria remain leading killers, often intensified by malnutrition.

Progress

  • Since 1990, the under-five mortality rate has fallen by about 60% and ....
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