CIAO DATE: 02/2015
September 2014
Over the past decade, the Millennium Development Goals (hereafter MDGs or "Goals") have become a central framework in organizing global health efforts. Many developing countries have made significant progress toward the official targets, including Goal 4, which is to achieve a two-thirds reduction in under-5 mortality rates (U5MR) by 2015 compared to 1990. According to the United Nations’ latest estimates, the developing world’s 2013 aggregate U5MR had declined 40 percent since 2000, and 50 percent since 1990.
Resource link: Seven Million Lives Saved: Under-5 Mortality Since the Launch of the Millennium Development Goals [PDF] - 1.3M