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Article Draft: Child Mortality Child Mortality: Adding to this section: While in 1990, 12.6 million children under age five died, in 2016 that number fell to 5.6 million children, and then in 2020, the global number fell again to 5 million. Removing from this section: Many child deaths go unreported for a variety of reasons, including lack of death registration and lack of data on child migrants. Without accurate data on child deaths, we cannot fully discover and combat the greatest risks to a child's life. This needs to be removed because we cannot know how factual this is and how much it impacts child mortality rates. Without the so-called missing data, there is no data on what and how much is missing. Measurement: Change title to: Types of Child Mortality Adding to this section: Child Mortality refers to the premature deaths of any child under the age of 5 years old. However, within those 5 years, there are 5 smaller groups. Perinatal refers to a fetus, a living organism, but not yet born. Typically, peri neonate deaths are due to premature birth or birth defects. Neonatal refers to child death within one month, or 28 days, of birth. Neonate deaths are reflected in the type of care the hospital is providing, as well as birth defects and complications. Infant refers to the death of a child before their first birthday or within 12 months of life. Some of the main causes include premature birth, SIDS, low birth weight, malnutrition, and infectious diseases. And lastly, the under-5 mortality rate refers to children who die under the age of 5 years old or within the first 5 years of life. Causes: The leading causes of death of children under five include: •	Preterm birth complications (18%) •	Pneumonia (16%) •	Interpartum-related events (12%) •	Neonatal sepsis (7%) •	Diarrhea (8%) •	Malaria (5%) •	Malnutrition and Under nutrition (34%) Prevention  Efforts: Substantial global progress has been made in reducing child deaths since 1990. The total number of under-5 deaths worldwide has declined from 12.6 million in 1990 to 5.2 million in 2019. Since 1990, the global under-5 mortality rate has dropped by 59%, from 93 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 38 in 2019. This is equivalent to 1 in 11 children dying before reaching age 5 in 1990, compared to 1 in 27 in 2019. The Sustainable Development Goals has set 2 new goals to reduce under-5 and newborn mortality. The goals set newborn mortality for 12 per 1,00 live births in every country and for under 5 mortality 25 per 1,000 livebirths in every country. In 2019, 122 countries met this and every 10 years, 20 more are expected to follow. WHO states they support health equity and universal health care so that all countries may have proper health care with no finances involved. COVID-19: Child mortality, unlike mortality throughout other ages, actually dropped in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world. Children were among the lowest group of deaths in the world due to Covid-19. About 3.7 million deaths occurred and only 0.4 of them occurred in adolescents under 20 years of age, making about 13,400 deaths in adolescents. Of that small proportion, 42% occurred in children under the age of 9 years old.