According to UNICEF, 4.8 million children under the age of five died worldwide in 2023. The most difficult situation is observed in Africa, where 2.76 million children did not reach the age of five.
According to the United Nations Inter-Agency Group on Child Mortality Assessment, Niger is the leader in the number of child deaths. 11.5% of children there did not live to be five years old. The situation is also critical in Nigeria, Chad and Somalia. In these countries, every tenth child dies before the age of five.
In North Africa, the situation turned out to be less critical. In Tunisia, the infant mortality rate was 1.3%, in Morocco — 1.7%, in Egypt — 1.8%.
These figures are comparable to those of Colombia (1.2%) and Mexico (1.2%). In Europe, the highest child mortality rate was recorded in Moldova — about 1.5%. naked-science.ru.
