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'Child mortality rate sees decline; 4.9mn children died before age five in 2022'

"There is a lot of good news, and the major one is that we have come to a historic level of under-five mortality, which… reached under 5 million for the first time, so it is 4.9 million per year," said Helga Fogstad, director of health at the UN children's agency UNICEF. This is a 51 per cent decrease since 2000 and a 62 per cent drop since 1990. The progress was particularly notable in developing countries such as Malawi, Rwanda and Mongolia.