Chances of newborns reaching age five vary nearly four-fold among local governments in Nigeria - Study

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A child born in Garki Local Government Area of Jigawa State has less chance of celebrating its fifth birthday than another born in Egor LGA of Edo State,

more than 40-fold at the district level. However, the research shows that in Nigeria the national figure is still high as 789,037 children died before their fifth birthdays in 2017, as compared to 1,011,620 in 2000.The research also confirmed that the locality a child is born within the country determines if the child will live to adulthood. This has a lot to do with the inequalities and disproportionate allocation of public resources within society.

It also noted that neonatal disorders were the biggest causes of deaths before age five in both 2000 and 2017. Decreases in deaths from diarrhoea and lower respiratory infections accounted for 40 per cent of the overall drop in child deaths over the study period. The study showed that a growing proportion of child deaths are occurring in areas with low overall death rates. Neonatal mortality and infant mortality are both increasing as a percentage of total child deaths.The senior author and Director of the Local Burden of Disease group at IHME, Simon Hay, said it is as reprehensible as it is tragic that, on average, nearly 15,000 children under age five die every day.

 

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