A new UN analysis estimates that in 2021, a child or youth person would die every 4.4 seconds.According to the most recent estimates made public by the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, 2.1 million children and adolescents aged between 5 and 24 years and 5 million children and young under the age of five died in 2021.The group found that 1.9 million babies were stillborn within the same time period in a different report that was also issued on January 9.Tragically, a lot of these deaths may have been avoided with equitable access to excellent maternity, neonatal, adolescent, and child health care.This can be ascribed to increased spending in improving primary health systems for the benefit of women, children, and young people
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