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MDG4.A: Child mortality rate (per 1,000 live births), 1990 to 2019

Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4.A was to reduce global child mortality (children under 5 years old) rates by two-thirds from 1990 to 2015. The global target was
therefore a reduction to 30 deaths per 1,000 live births by 2015. This target was missed.

1990201919952000200520102015Global target: reduce child mortality by two-thirds (to 30 per 1,000)Global target: reduce child mortality by two-thirds (to 30 per 1,000)World

Source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (via World Bank)