Child Deaths From Preventable Causes Cut By Half Since 2000: UN
World leaders adopted the UN's Millennium Development Goals in 2000, a year in which 11.2 million children below an age 15 died from preventable diseases, a lack of clean water, malnutrition and during birth.
The number fell to 6.3 million in 2017 or one child dying every five seconds, according to UNICEF
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