Health and Nutrition – Stats
- Diarrhea and pneumonia cause more than 2 million deaths each year, many of which could be avoided through prevention or prompt care.
- There were 198 million cases of malaria in 2013, leading to 584,000 unnecessary deaths.
- Undernutrition is the underlying cause of death in an estimated 45 percent of deaths among children under 5 years of age — that’s a staggering 7.6 million children each year or about 14 children every minute of every day.