Under-five mortality rate down 4 percent in Azerbaijan: UNICEF
By Araz Said, AzerNews Staff Writer
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) published on Thursday its annual global report on infant deaths, including U5MR (under-five mortality rate) report.
According to the report, U5MR in Azerbaijan declined by 4 percent in 2011, compared to 2010. While the number of under-five deaths in 2010 was 46.4 per 1,000, it dropped to 44.7 in 2011.
The report also says that in the last two decades, U5MR in Azerbaijan has declined by 58 percent. 19,000 children under five died in 1990, while in 2011 their number in the country of over 9 million people was 8,000.
The UNICEF estimates that the country with the highest rate of U5MR in 2011 was Sierra Leone (185.3 out of 1,000) and the country with the lowest rate was San Marino (1.8 out of 1,000).
On the whole, a report from the UNICEF said the number of children under the age of five dying across the world fell from almost 12 million in 1990 to 6.9 million in 2011.
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