Here is the news, today 21,000 children died. That is equivalent to:
- 1 child dying every 4 seconds
- 14 children dying every minute
- A 2010 Haiti earthquake occurring every 10 days
- A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring every 11 days
- Just under 7.6 million children dying every year
- Some 92 million children dying between 2000 and 2010
The silent killers are poverty, hunger, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes. Despite the scale of this daily/ongoing catastrophe, it rarely manages to achieve, much less sustain, prime-time, headline coverage.
Some more numbers
From UNICEF:
- 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation
- 1 billion children are deprived of one or more services essential to survival and development
- 148 million under 5s in developing regions are underweight for their age
- 101 million children are not attending primary school, with more girls than boys missing out
- 22 million infants are not protected from diseases by routine immunization
- 4 million newborns worldwide are dying in the first month of life
- 2 million children under 15 are living with HIV
- Over 500,000 women die each year from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth
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