Goals

Fourth goal

CHILD HEALTH

INTRODUCTION

One of the darkest characteristics of poverty is that is seems to prey on the vulnerable and defenceless. 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.

THE TARGETS

Goal 4 of the Millennium Development Goals sets out by the year 2015 to:

• Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.

(source: UN Millennium Campaign website www.endpoverty2015.org)

DID YOU KNOW?

In our world today nearly 11 million children under the age of 5 die in the world every year – well over 1,200 every hour most from easly preventable or treatable causes.
 (Source: Why do the Millennium Development Goals matter? Brochure)