Azerbaijan ranks 63rd on child mortality: UNICEF
Azerbaijan ranks 63rd among 193 countries on the annual number of children who die before they reach age five, a United Nations agency has said in a report.
According to the report, 2,432,000 of Azerbaijan’s total population of 9,188,000 people are youths under age 18, while 795,000 are children under five. The annual number of children who die before reaching age five is 9,000, says the report, titled The State of the World’s Children 2012.
An average of 182,000 babies are born in Azerbaijan every year. The annual growth rate of the Azerbaijani population was 1.2 percent from 1990 to 2010. Until 2030, the figure is expected to decrease to 0.8 percent, according to UNICEF.
Ranked in the bottom of UNICEF’s annual report on child mortality are Somalia, Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad, while the lowest numbers of child deaths were reported in Iceland, Liechtenstein and San Marino.
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