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How Can Pakistan Reduce High Rates of Infant Mortality?

From the Blog riazhaqOf every 1,000 babies born in Pakistan, 45.6 die before the end of their first month – 1 in 22, the highest infant mortality rate in the world, according to a United Nations Children's Fund report titled "Every Child Alive: The urgent need to end newborn deaths". Pakistan's newborn mortality rate has declined by less than one quarter, from 60 in 2000 to 46 in 2016, according to UNICEF. Highest Contributors to Newborn Deaths Source: UNICEF*Worst Countries:* Of the 2.6 million newborn dying each year worldwide, India tops with 24% share followed by Pakistan with 10%. Ten countries, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan and Tanzania account for more than half of the world's newborn deaths, according to the report. Four of these 10pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full PostComments

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