To reduce child mortality, we need to understand what children are dying from. People often ask me for my favorite statistic. My answer changes, depending on what I’m obsessed with at any given moment. But my least favorite has been the same for years: five million children die every year…
Source: Our World in Data is a project of Global Change Data Lab
Our World In Data
- We have a new Urbanization topic page
- How does food get traded around the world?
- How much are people across the world paying for their carbon emissions?
- Where do migrants live, and where were they born?
- Five million children die every year — what do they die from?
Climate Change
- Our data scientist Tuna Acisu’s successful quest to continue a 1,200-year-old climate record
- The world is warming despite natural fluctuations from the El Niño cycle
- Hannah Ritchie’s new book, “Clearing the Air”, is out now in the US and Canada
