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UN: Childhood Deaths at Record Low, but Progress 'Precarious'

A child receives an oral Malaria vaccine at Chileka Health Center, in Lilongwe, Malawi in this undated handout photo from UNICEF.[VOA}

The number of children worldwide who died before age 5 reached a record low in 2022, the United Nations said in a report published Tuesday, as for the first time fewer than 5 million died.

According to the estimate, 4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2022, a 51% decrease since 2000 and a 62% drop since 1990, according to the report, which still warned such progress is "precarious" and unequal.

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