Save The Children [to 7 February 2015]
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The Lottery of Birth: New Report Reveals World’s Most Disadvantaged Children are Being Left Behind in Global Efforts to Improve Child Survival
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (Feb. 4, 2015) — Despite historic global progress in reducing under-five child mortality rates over the past 15 years, new research conducted by Save the Children has found that large groups of children are still being left behind, simply because of where they live and the circumstances in which they are born.

Many factors, including whether a child lives in a rural area or belongs to a disadvantaged ethnic group, play a huge role in a child’s chances of survival. Save the Children describes this situation as a “lottery of birth.”

The “Lottery of Birth” report, based on inaugural analysis of disaggregated data from 87 low and middle income countries around the world, reveals that in more than three quarters of these countries, inequalities in child survival rates are actually worsening, resulting in some groups of children making far slower progress than their better-off peers…