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Millennium Development Goals Report 2011

Millennium Development Goals Report 2011
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Category: Statistics
Language: English
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The number of deaths of children under the age of five declined from 12.4 million in 1990 to 8.1 million in 2009, which means nearly 12,000 fewer children die each day. Some of the world’s poorest countries have also made impressive gains in the fight against poverty, but the least developed countries still lag in efforts to improve living standards.