Even though global under-five mortality rates dropped by 56% in the last 26 years, large disparities exist in child survival across regions and countries:
New child mortality estimates show that 15,000 children died every day in 2016
There has been substantial progress in reducing child mortality in the past several decades. Between 1990 and 2016, the global under-five mortality rate dropped by 56 percent from 93 deaths per 1,000 live births to 41 deaths per 1,000 live births.