The World Bank released its World Development Indicators 2010 publication. The millennium development goal of reducing the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015 is one of the goals to reduce world wide poverty.

Since 1990 deaths of children under age 5 have been declining and in 2006, for the first time, the number of children who died before their fifth birthday fell below 10 million. In developing countries child mortality declined about 25 percent, from 101 per 1,000 in 1990 to 73 in 2008.

There are still many countries in Sub Saharan Africa showing little progress in fighting child mortality — one child in seven dies before the fifth birthday according to the report. The odds are slightly better in South Asia, where one child in thirteen dies before the fifth birthday.

These two regions remain overriding priorities for child survival interventions such as immunizations, exclusive breastfeeding, and insecticide-treated nets.

Thirty-nine countries have achieved or are now on track to achieve the target of a two-thirds reduction in under-five mortality rates. Two of the poorest countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Eritrea and Malawi, have made remarkable progress.

Eritrea has reduced the under-five years mortality rate per 1000 from 150 in 1990 to 58 in 2008. Successful countries now account for half the population of low- and middle-income economies.

The latest World Development Indicators publication also includes a new data query format with the option to organize and extract data by topic or country. Eritrea Country Data New Format.

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