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title: "Good news, everyone! "Two decades ago, nearly 10 million children did…"
date: 2019-09-18
source: facebook
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# Good news, everyone! "Two decades ago, nearly 10 million children did…

*September 18, 2019 · Facebook*

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[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/17/upshot/child-mortality.html](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/17/upshot/child-mortality.html){target="_blank"}
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Good news, everyone!\
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\"Two decades ago, nearly 10 million children did not live to see a 5th birthday.\
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By 2017, that number --- about 1 in every 16 children --- was nearly cut in half, even as the world's population increased by more than a billion people.\"\
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#child_mortality #goodnews
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