Childhood Mortality Rates: Which Country is Highest?

Unfortunately, It’s probably where you expect.

When looking at this graph, what do you notice? I’ll tell you the first thing I noticed.

All are African countries.

Somalia is one of the most devastating places for children. The history of the country goes all the way to the Paleolithic period. But modern history has seen it become relatively unstable with both cold and live wars, rendering the infrastructure a deadly challenge to its people. For every 1,000 live births, 13.7 percent of those children die. The reasons range from malnutrition, lack of sanitation that leads to diseases, and the presence of diseases that were eradicated in developing and developed countries, such as polio.

There is so much that’s broken about the health system in the country and the children seem to be the ones paying dearly for that, even before they are born.

Source

The Borgen Project: https://borgenproject.org/child-mortality-rate-in-somalia/