Nigeria: Unicef Reports Progress in Child Mortality Rate

10 September 2015

New York — The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday reported that progress has been made in reducing child mortality, saying that its rates have plummeted to less than half of what they were in 1990.

The UN agency which stated this in a new report which was jointly released with the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank Group, and the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), however said the progress made so far is not enough to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of a two-thirds reduction over the past 15 years.

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