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50 million
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60 million
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70 million
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80 million
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Detailed explanation-1: -Under-five mortality In 2021, 5.0 million children under 5 years of age died. Globally, infectious diseases, including pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria, remain a leading cause of under-five deaths, along with preterm birth and intrapartum-related complications.
Detailed explanation-2: -Brief Definition: The under-five mortality rate refers to the probability of dying. before age 5 years per 1, 000 newborns.
Detailed explanation-3: -Under-five mortality rate as defined here is strictly speaking not a rate (i.e. the number of deaths divided by the number of population at risk during a certain period of time) but a probability of death derived from a life table and expressed as rate per 1000 live births.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nutrition-related factors contribute to about 45% of deaths in children under-5 years of age.