High U5MR 71 140 under five deaths per 1,000 live births.

Middle U5MR 21 70 under five deaths per 1,000 live births.

Very high U5MR over 140 under five deaths per 1,000 live births.

Low U5MR less than 21 under five deaths per 1,000 live births.

Table 10.4. The age of persons giving birth under the age of 18

The number of deaths of children under 18 exceeded 720.

Article 77 forbids conscription of children under age 15 into the armed forces.

Benin had one of the highest death rates for children under the age of five in the world.

The infant, under five and maternal mortality rates are all worsening.

A large number of these children under 4 suffered from anaemia.

We are close to achieving two more goals the reduction of extreme poverty and under five child mortality rates.

As of June 2005, there are approximately 60,000 children six years of age and younger, and there are approximately 12,000 licensed child care spaces serving children aged 13 years and younger.

In the province with worst health indicators, Ratanakiri, 22.9 of children die before age five.

Liver injury is extremely rare after acute accidental ingestion in children under 6 years of age.

The fourth Millennium Development Goal is to reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five .

This estimate refers to children under 5 who were of less weight at birth.

Over 300,000 people almost half of the country's population were affected, of whom one third were children under nine years of age.

Goal 5 To reduce under five child mortality by two thirds between 1990 and 2015

In children under five years and adults over 40 years, the fatality rate may be as much as 20 .

Programme expenditure in 2004 for countries classified according to gross national income and under five mortality ratesa

The single largest share of the national budget was spent on providing universal access to education up to the age of 16, with free primary and secondary schooling available without discrimination to all children.

It had banned the employment of children under the age of 14 in factories, mines and other hazardous environments, and had regulated the working conditions of children in permitted occupations.

As fertility declines, the proportion of the population comprising children (persons under age 15) also declines, whereas the proportion of the population of working age increases, resulting in a decreasing dependency ratio (defined as the average number of children and elderly persons per 10 persons of working age).

World Bank data link the economic downturn to an increase, by 200,000, in mortality among children under the age of five.

The analysis for the overall population shows the most exposed categories as follows children, especially under the age of 5, displaced persons, returnees, the unemployed and persons with low education.

Ninety per cent of children under 5 were immunized against preventable diseases and infant mortality rates had fallen dramatically in the previous decade.

By the same date, to have reduced maternal mortality by three quarters, and under five child mortality by two thirds, of their current rates.

The Committee is also concerned that certain of the data collected only apply to children under the age of 17 years, as is the case for data relating to children with disabilities, or those under the age of 16 years, as is the case for data relating to education.

Unless this gap is closed, 2 million children under five years of age will continue to die annually from vaccine preventable diseases.

The action plan also incorporates provisions for the discharge of children under 18 from military service and for their reintegration into their families and communities.

Most ESCWA member countries perform quite well when judged by life expectancy at birth and by infant and under five mortality rates.

Recognizing that each year 1.4 million children under five years of age die from diseases preventable by currently available vaccines

There was a notable range among the seven countries in terms of the key indicator of the under five mortality rate, ranging from 35 deaths of children under five per 1,000 live births for Cape Verde to 257 in Afghanistan.

Children begin school at the age of six.

Children enroll in elementary schools at the age of seven.

Affected children usually die by age two.

Children up to 15 years of age,

According to the World Bank, half of all children under five experience delayed growth, a larger proportion than in any other country in Africa.

Child protection is a set of usually government run services designed to protect children and young people who are underage and to encourage family stability.

Nearly all deaths among children under five years of age (99 per cent) occur in low income countries or the poor areas of middle income countries.

(d) The establishment by the Government of a committee for the prevention of military recruitment of under age soldiers and the adoption in November 2004 of an outline plan of action to address the issues of under age recruitment and child soldiers

After non compulsory pre school education, children enter the nine year primary school at the age of six.

Late entry into the educational system by the underprivileged children aged 10 years remains to be a problem in Mozambique.

Non schoolgoing children

8. Encourages States to adopt and enforce laws and improve the implementation of policies and programmes to protect children growing up without parents or caregivers, recognizing that, where alternative care is necessary, family and community based care should be promoted over placement in institutions