Five million children die every year — what do they die from?
Fiona Spooner
People often ask me for my favorite statistic. My answer changes, depending on what I’m obsessed with at any given moment. But my least favorite has been the same for years: five million children die every year.
Not just because of the pain and loss that it represents, but especially because most of these deaths are avoidable.
But to reduce mortality, we need to understand what children are dying from.
My colleagues Sophia Mersmann and Fiona Spooner have built a beautiful interactive...