Latest News - 21,000 kids will die today

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

Taken from here