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Women, Children and Adolescent Health Fact Sheet - Partners Forum 2018

303000 maternal deaths world wide 2015
2.5 million neonatal deaths 2017
2.6 million stillbirths 2015
5.4 million under five deaths 2017
More than 1.2 million adolescents died 2015
Birth rate in girls aged 15-19 years 44 per 1000 2018
151 million children under five were stunted 2017
250 million children ( 1 in 3 children) younger than 5 years of age are at risk of suboptimal development due to risk factors such as poverty and stunting.
59% worldwide cook with clean energy 2016
Government domestic funding as a share of current health expenditure fell from 30% (2000) to 22% (2015) in low-income countries.
100 million people are pushed into extreme poverty each year by out of pocket health expenses.
214 million women of reproductive age in developing regions who want to avoid pregnancy are not using a modern contraceptive method.
53% of women make their own informed decisions regarding sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights.

Half of the world lacks access to essential health services 2015.
29% of children under five were not registered at birth 2016.
56% of school children were not achieving minimum proficiency in math 2015
Women’s participation in national parliament was 23.4% up 10 percentage points from 2000, 2017.
2.9 billion people used a safely managed sanitation service 2015.
1 in 3 women experienced physical and or sexual violence 2013.
57 countries have laws and regulations that guarantee full and equal access to women and men aged 15 years and older to sexual and reproductive health care, information and education; 30 are in sub- Saharan Africa 2015.

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