{"id":532,"date":"2025-12-03T06:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/global-child-mortality-declined-from-50-in-1800-to-4-3-today\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T06:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:27:10","slug":"global-child-mortality-declined-from-50-in-1800-to-4-3-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/global-child-mortality-declined-from-50-in-1800-to-4-3-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Child Mortality Declined from 50% in 1800 to 4.3% Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. It\u2019s 0.3% in countries like Japan &amp; Norway.<\/p>\n<p>This dramatic decline has resulted from better nutrition, clean water, sanitation, neonatal healthcare, vaccinations, medicines, and reductions in poverty, conflicts, and famine.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/25\/12\/an-astonishing-graph\">kottke.org\/25\/12\/an-astonishing-graph<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. It\u2019s 0.3% in countries like Japan &amp; Norway. This dramatic decline has resulted from better nutrition, clean water, sanitation, neonatal healthcare, vaccinations, medicines, and reductions in poverty, conflicts, and famine. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,44,38],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-child-mortality","tag-science","tag-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}