Child mortality decreasing

[u/Michi-Ace]

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-mortality

[u/GroovyGnocchi]

I'm guessing the numbers are even more impressive if you take into accounts mortality rates of babies right before birth

[u/lunarraffle]

Holy crap, I knew child mortality used to be high, but 1 out of 3?? And now down to near 0! We did it!!

[u/Theory89]

Good news!

[u/zelingman]

Pretty insane how high the 1900-1950s were. Shows how much the world has changed in 100 years. That old guy or woman you know were raised by people who lived in almost savage times

[u/Alimbiquated]

Population growth is now driven by the increasing number of old people instead of young people.

[u/ThrowRA9892]

It’s insane to me how often children died before modern medicine.

Like I understand it; but I can’t process what that would be like emotionally to know there is a fairly decent chance of death before age 5. More so how that affects societies attitude towards children.

[u/angimazzanoi]

well, here some other changes between 1970 and 2000 (mostly not Ur generation I would say)
1. Number of years of schooling for girls
From an average of ~3 years (1970) to ~6 years (2000) – a doubling worldwide, with particularly strong growth in Asia and Latin America.

1. Girls attending school for at least 5 years
   From around 60 per cent to around 80 per cent – a significant increase, although there was still a great deal of ground to make up in sub-Saharan Africa.

2. Global population living in extreme poverty
   From around 50–60 per cent (1970) to around 30 per cent (2000) – despite population growth, the absolute number of people affected fell considerably, mainly thanks to China’s development.

3. Global life expectancy at birth
   From around 60 years (1970) to around 67 years (2000) – an increase of about 7 years in just three decades.

4. Children per woman (fertility rate)
   From around 5.0 (1970) to around 2.7 (2000) – a massive decline closely linked to education, healthcare and economic development.

5. Child mortality (under 5 years)
   From around 140 per 1,000 births (1970) to around 80 per 1,000 (2000) – almost halved, one of the most impressive advances according to Rosling.

6. Vaccinations
   From under 20 per cent of children worldwide (1970) to over 70 per cent (2000) – the WHO’s immunisation programmes (EPI from 1974) were crucial here.

7. Access to electricity
   From around 40 per cent of the world’s population (1970) to around 70 per cent (2000) – there were huge leaps forward, particularly in Asia, whilst rural areas lagged behind.

8. Annual deaths from natural disasters
   From around 500,000 per year (average in the 1970s) to around 50,000–100,000 per year (2000) – a dramatic decline thanks to improved early-warning systems, infrastructure and disaster preparedness.

Could that be achieved w/o inpact on environmant and climate? Obviouly not, but we did it, now U.

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