The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) updates child mortality estimates annually, and this report presents the IGME's latest estimates of under-five, infant and neonatal mortality and assesses progress towards MDG 4 at the regional and global levels. The world has made substantial progress, reducing the under-five mortality rate 41 percent, from 87 (85,89) deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 51 (51,55) in 2011. However, this progress has not been enough, and the target risks being missed at the global level. The global under-five mortality rate needs to be reduced to 29 deaths per 1,000 live births—which implies an annual rate of reduction of 14.2 percent for 2011–2015, much higher than the 2.5 percent achieved over 1990–2011.
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