As an aside, demographic experts have noted that birth rates tend to go down when child death rates decline. Experts now believe that child death rates need to be addressed in order tame world population growth. According to Joshua Project 2000, there were 225 untargeted people groups as of June, 1999. Untargeted means there is no reported on-site church planting effort and no mission organization has committed itself to church planting in the next two years among this people. This information should encourage us.
Progress is possible.
And with the potential resources that could be available, even greater things can happen. At the same time, it also serves as a warning that we can't take this progress for granted. It is the most recent data available. The 10,630,000 annual child deaths were divided by the number of seconds in the year. All rights reserved.