Produced by Myriad Editions Child mortality rate ICELAND The World’s Forgotten FINLAND Under-five mortality rate per 1000 live births SWEDEN 2000 World Health Organization NORWAY Beacons of hope Children ESTONIA RUSSIAN over 175 11 – 25 UNITED LATVIA FED. greatest improvement Aiko is safely delivered in Kumamoto, Today, 35% of Africa’s children are KINGDOM DENMARK LITHUANIA in child mortality rate , and can expect to live about 85 at higher risk of death than they 101 – 175 10 and under years. At the same time, Mariam comes IRELAND 1970–2000 into this world in one of the poorest areas were ten years ago. NETH. BELARUS POLAND 26 – 100 no data of Freetown, Sierra Leone. She is BELGIUM CZECH UKRAINE underweight and vitamin-deficient, and REPUBLIC SLOVAKIA LUX. REP. HUNGARY MOLDOVA has a 30% chance of dying before her AUSTRIA ROMANIA fifth birthday. SWITZ. SLOVENIA BOSNIA & S. MARINO HERZEGOVINA CROATIA SERBIA & BULGARIA RUSSIAN FEDERATION MONTENEGRO MONACO ITALY ANDORRA ALBANIA ver 10 million children FYR MACEDONIA SPAIN under five die every year – CANADA PORTUGAL O GREECE 98 per cent of them in developing KAZAKHSTAN countries. Widespread MALTA MONGOLIA malnutrition hampers children’s DPR GEORGIA UZBEKISTAN KYRGYZSTAN KOREA AZERBAIJAN JAPAN growth and development, opening TURKEY ARMENIA TURKMENISTAN TAJIKISTAN the door to the biggest killers of REP. U S A CYPRUS SYRIAN ARAB ISL. REP. TUNISIA REPUBLIC CHINA KOREA LEBANON IRAN AFGHANISTAN children under five: perinatal MOROCCO ISRAEL IRAQ JORDAN MARSHALL KUWAIT ISLANDS diseases, pneumonia, diarrhoea, PAKISTAN BHUTAN BAHAMAS ALGERIA LIBYAN BAHRAIN NEPAL ARAB KIRIBATI and malaria. This presents a sharp CUBA QATAR MEXICO JAMAHIRIYA EGYPT NAURU UAE TUVALU contrast to the situation in the DOMINICAN SAUDI INDIA BANGLADESH JAMAICA REP. ARABIA MYANMAR LAO industrialized world, where junk BELIZE HAITI MAURITANIA OMAN PDR SAMOA COOK ANTIGUA & BARBUDA VIET NAM ISLANDS GUATEMALA HONDURAS ST KITTS & NEVIS MALI FIJI DOMINICA CAPE VERDE NIGER VANUATU food and a sedentary lifestyle have EL SALVADOR ST LUCIA SENEGAL CHAD ERITREA YEMEN ST VINCENT & GRENADINES GAMBIA SUDAN PHILIPPINES TONGA NIUE NICARAGUA BARBADOS triggered an unprecedented BURKINA CAMBODIA GRENADA TRINIDAD & TOBAGO GUINEA-BISSAU FASO DJIBOUTI COSTA RICA GUINEA epidemic of obesity in children, VENEZUELA NIGERIA PANAMA GUYANA CÔTE ETHIOPIA SRI LANKA SIERRA LEONE BENIN CENTRAL AFRICAN PALAU SURINAME D’IVOIRE TOGO MALDIVES BRUNEI DAR. leading to diabetes and heart COLOMBIA LIBERIA GHANA REPUBLIC EQUATORIAL CAMEROON SOMALIA MALAYSIA MICRONESIA, disease in adult life. GUINEA UGANDA FED. STATES OF KENYA SINGAPORE ECUADOR GABON SAO TOME RWANDA SEYCHELLES & PRINCIPE DEM. REP. The last three decades have CONGO CONGO BURUNDI PAPUA witnessed an impressive decline in PERU UNITED REP. TANZANIA INDONESIA NEW BRAZIL GUINEA SOLOMON child mortality, from 17 million a ANGOLA COMOROS TIMOR-LESTE ISLANDS year in the 1970s. Yet these gains MALAWI "It is not enough ZAMBIA have not been enjoyed to prepare our children for the world; BOLIVIA MADAGASCAR ZIMBABWE MAURITIUS everywhere. In some countries of we must also prepare the world NAMIBIA BOTSWANA for our children.” MOZAMBIQUE sub-Saharan Africa, child PARAGUAY Luis J. Rodriguez (1954– ) mortality is rising as wars and the US$ 17 billion CHILE SWAZILAND AUSTRALIA SOUTH ravage of the AIDS epidemic AFRICA LESOTHO undermine the medical, social and URUGUAY economic structures of society. ARGENTINA At the turn of the century, the world joined together in the fight The price of life NEW ZEALAND against poverty, and committed itself to the Millennium The biggest killers of children under five Development Goals, adopted by US$ 7.5 billion Main causes of child mortality the in 2000. “To 2002 reduce by two-thirds the Diarrhoea 15% under-five mortality rate between Acute respiratory 1990 and 2015” may be the most infection 18% Malaria 11% ambitious of these goals. Deaths associated with malnutrition: Measles 5% 54% Annual expenditure on pet food Annual cost of scaling-up vaccination, Human Immunodeficiency in North America and Europe malaria prevention and Other Virus (HIV) 4% 1998 essential treatment to reach 24% Perinatal diseases every child in the developing world (within 7 days of birth) 2001 23% From Inheriting the World: The Atlas of Children's Health and the Environment © WHO