Global, regional, and national levels and trends in under-5 mortality between 1990 and 2015, with scenario-based projections to 2030: a systematic analysis by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.

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In 2000, world leaders agreed on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). MDG 4 called for a two-thirds reduction in the under-5 mortality rate between 1990 and 2015. We aimed to estimate levels and trends in under-5 mortality for 195 countries from 1990 to 2015 to assess MDG 4 achievement and then intended to project how various post-2015 targets and observed rates of change will affect the burden of under-5 deaths from 2016 to 2030.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Lancet

Title: Lancet (London, England)

ISSN (Electronic): 1474-547X

ISSN (Print): 0140-6736

Publication date (Electronic): Dec 5 2015

Volume: 386

Issue: 10010

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[1 ] Division of Data, Research, and Policy, UNICEF, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: dyou@unicef.org.

[2 ] Division of Data, Research, and Policy, UNICEF, New York, NY, USA.

[3 ] WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.

[4 ] United Nations Population Division, New York, NY, USA.

[5 ] University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

[6 ] Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.

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Publisher Item ID: S0140-6736(15)00120-8

DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00120-8

PubMed ID: 26361942

SO-VID: f12adfb2-9362-4e82-9b21-1550662f5514

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