The infant mortality rate in the world fell by a quarter

The infant mortality rate in the world between 1990 and 2006, almost a quarter. In 2006, at the age of five died 9.7 million children. Cpasenie large number of children was made possible through the strengthening of national health systems and the development of targeted strategies. It's about a new report from the Children's Fund (UNICEF), "The situation of children in the world in 2008." UNICEF Executive Director Anne Vinniman said that can secure the necessary community for mothers, newborns and young children as well as the continuous improvement of national health systems, the lives of many of the 26,000 children who die every day to store the age of five. Anna Vinniman drew attention to the fact that in China in the past 16 years, the infant mortality rate fell by 47 per cent in India in the same period - 34 percent. Worldwide, since 1990, child mortality fell by a quarter. The authors of the report, UNICEF said that with the strengthening of national policies in 2015 the infant mortality rate to four million euros per year are reduced. Currently, in the developed countries, the age of 5 die every six children in 1000 and in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS countries - 27 babies in 1000. In sub-Saharan Africa under the age of five die every six children.