However, the Committee is very concerned that despite decreases in the infant mortality rate, under five mortality rate and maternal mortality rate, these rates remain very high.

In 2002, female child mortality rate under five years old was 31.4 o and male child mortality rate was 34.2 o.

Target 5 Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under five mortality rate

In 2003, the population growth slowed down to 1.47 the mortality rate of under one year old and under five year old children was 21 and 42 respectively, maternal mortality rate was 0.85 .

An alternative way to define the indicator 13 (  Under five mortality rate ) would be preferable the under five rate should be replaced by 1 4 years or by 28 days to 4 years .

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

Rate The under 5 mortality rate is the number of children who die by the age of five, per thousand live births per year.

The mortality rate was nearly five times that of the 1918 19 pandemic.

In recent years, despite the country's difficult situation and thanks to the ninth five year (1997 2002) development plan, child mortality, mortality of children under five and maternal mortality had decreased, the girls' primary school enrolment rate had increased and more than 90 percent of all children were vaccinated.

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

In 1920 the mortality rate among people under 65 had decreased six fold to half the mortality rate of people over 65, but still 92 of deaths occurred in people under 65.

4. According to government figures, from 1993 to 1998, per capita income declined from 991 to 457 the infant mortality rate increased from 14 to 24 per 1,000 live births and the under five mortality rate from 27 to 50 per 1,000 live births.

In 2003, maternal mortality rate was 85 100,000 child mortality rate under one year old was 21 o (40.2 o for male and 32.9 o for female).

The mortality rate of children under 5 is 119 deaths per thousand children.

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.

We aimed, for example, to halve the proportion of people living on less than 1 a day to achieve decent employment for women, men, and young people to reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality rate and to reduce by two thirds the under five mortality rate.

Maternal mortality rate

neonatal mortality rate

Although the under five mortality rate has admittedly fallen from 248 to 180 per 1,000 live births, the Central African Republic still has the highest rate of maternal death during childbirth (1,100 women per 100,000 live births).

As better health care and socio economic conditions had helped to reduce the mortality rate for children under five, Thailand was on the way to meeting Millennium Development Goal 4.

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

While my country, Rwanda, has reduced child mortality by 70 over the past decade, the rate of stunting remains high, with 44 of children under the age of five chronically malnourished.

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 under five mortality rate went down from 58 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 42 per 1,000 births in 2001, and dropped further to 31.5 per 1,000 births in 2004.

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

In 1991, with the infant death rate of 14,5 promil BiH fell under the category of countries with relatively low infant mortality rate (in Central and Eastern Europe, the infant mortality rate was 17,5 promils and the European average was 7,5 promils).

The malnutrition rate and the child mortality rate have been reduced.

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

Emphasizing the need for all countries to strive towards achieving the internationally agreed development goal in the United Nations Millennium Declaration of reducing by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under five child mortality rate

Emphasizing the need for all countries to strive towards achieving the internationally agreed development goal in the United Nations Millennium Declaration of reducing by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under five child mortality rate

And sustained government investment in public health is reflected in steady improvement in India s infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, and life expectancy.

The population growth rate surged as the mortality rate dropped more rapidly than the birth rate.

Ethiopia has high infant and maternal mortality rate.

The maternal mortality rate has remained generally low.

Malaria was killing one million people each year, with mortality concentrated among pregnant women and children under the age of five.

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

Neonatal mortality and postneonatal mortality (covering the remaining 11 months of the first year of life) are reflected in the Infant Mortality Rate.

However, in other regions child mortality remains high, with 81 deaths of children under five for every 1,000 live births, where mortality was reduced by only 20 per cent (see figure below).

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

For example, indicator No. 13 (under five mortality rate) is shown as having 4 country data points ranging between 7 and 9 in fact, we have 12 points (one per year) and they range between 0.2 and 0.3 per 1,000 population.

The maternal mortality rate has been falling over the years.

In 2001, the rate of mortality in children age 5 and under was 10, 3 and has been decreased in comparison to 200 (13 ).

Ms. Koseli (Turkey), referring to health care, said that the main focus of the Ministry of Health was on reducing under five infant mortality rates, especially neo natal mortality, by preventing problems such as diarrhoea.

The mortality rate for children under five years of age residing in camps in these districts is above emergency thresholds,9 and over 1.45 million of the approximately 1.8 million internally displaced in northern Uganda rely almost entirely on external assistance for survival.

The estimated infant mortality rate was 6.06 per mille in 2012.