Click on table names to see a PDF version of the table using the Adobe Acrobat Reader , or on for the technical notes. For All 2000 report Infant and under-5 mortality rates fell by more than half between 1960 and 1990. But progress slowed in the 1990s. And in most regions, a big effort will be needed to attain a two-thirds reduction by 2015.
Infant deaths are most often the result of unhealthy conditions around the time of birth.
Health workers with midwifery skills are the key to reducing maternal mortality.