The Decline of Child Mortality Rates in MENA in Comparative Perspective
Although child mortality rates have declined all across the developing world over the past 40 years, they have declined the most in the Middle East and North Africa region. This quick note documents this remarkable experience both at the country an...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/09/20358848/decline-child-mortality-rates-mena-comparative-perspective http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22596 |
| Summary: | Although child mortality rates have
declined all across the developing world over the past 40
years, they have declined the most in the Middle East and
North Africa region. This quick note documents this
remarkable experience both at the country and regional
levels. This paper shows how child mortality rates (measured
as the number of deaths of children fewer than five years of
age per 1000 live births) have declined in the 17 MENA
countries for which we have data for the period 1970-2010.
It is clear from the figure that all MENA countries
experienced substantial declines in child mortality rates
over the past four decades. What also stands out from the
figure is the phenomenon of convergence. The gap between
countries with high mortality rates and those with low
mortality rates narrowed substantially between 1970 and
2010, suggesting the former have been converging with the latter. |
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