Sentences with phrase «child mortality rates decreased»

Similarly, a study using data from 219 countries found that, for every additional year of education for women, the child mortality rate decreased by 9.5 percent.

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This effort is credited with radically decreasing the country's infant mortality rate from 65 deaths for each 1,000 children born in 1938 to 3 deaths per 1,000 births in 2013.

After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, formula donations sent to affected areas resulted in immediate decreased rates of breastfeeding and higher rates of diarrhoea and mortality among young children.

Over the past 200,000 years, replacement - level fertility rates have ranged from 2.1 to 3.0 children per couple, he said, noting that global population remained remarkably stable until the beginning of the 19th century, when decreased mortality in newborns resulted in fertility rates exceeding replacement levels.

Death rates for each major category of childhood cancer, for example, decreased by about half since 1970 and continue to drop, but since fewer than one - third of 1 percent of cancer deaths occur in children younger than age 15, even the complete elimination of childhood cancer deaths would have little impact on overall cancer mortality.

This is a time for optimism and celebration of the remarkable gains to which the MDGs have contributed worldwide, including: decreasing the global share of people living on less than $ 1.25 per day by more than two - thirds since 1990; more than halving the rate of child mortality; and reaching gender parity in primary - school enrollment.

The bicycle - related mortality rate in children 1 to 15 years of age has decreased significantly, which may be attributable in part to helmet legislation.

So a 20 percent increase in the rule of law, for example, would increase a nation's GDP by $ 16,644, decrease its homicide rate by two per 100,000 population, decrease child mortality rates by 14.1 per 1,000, and add 5.2 years to average life expectancy.

Her fellow Co-Chair, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda said it is heartening to see rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child mortality are decreasing at over three times the rate experienced by other Australians.