What has UNICEF accomplished?
Since 1946, UNICEF has led a tireless crusade against disease and suffering, advocating low-cost, practical solutions to the problems facing the world's children. And statistics show that these solutions have been extraordinarily effective:
- A generation ago, 70,000 children died each day. Today that number has been cut by more than half.
- Thirty years ago, 1 in 4 children died before the age of five. Today that number is less than 1 in ten.
- In 1980, 10 percent of the world's children were immunized against the six killer diseases. Today, that number is over 75 percent.
- This year, 3 million more children will live to their fifth birthday than in 1990, and tens of millions will lead healthier, more productive lives.
- In 2008, for the first time in modern history, the number of children dying before the age of five fell below 10 million.
