Mixed Progress In Reducing World Under-5 Mortality, With Most Regions Not On Track To Meet Millennium Development Goal 4

There has been mixed progress in reducing world under-5 mortality. Figures released by UNICEF, based on the work of the Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME)*, show that the overall average annual rate of reduction (AARR) is much higher from 2000-2008 than it was 1990-2000.