Millennium Development Goals: Reduce child mortality — WE CAN END POVERTY

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

Introduction

One of the darkest characteristics of poverty is that is seems to prey on the vulnerable and defenseless. In low-income countries, one out of every 10 children dies before the age of five. In wealthier nations, this number is only one out of 143.

Targets

Goal 4:
Reduce Child Mortality

Target 4a:
Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

Indicators

Target 4a: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five

4.1 Under-five mortality rate
4.2 Infant mortality rate
4.3 Proportion of 1 year-old children immunised against measles