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World Development Indicators [WDI] 2005
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. The 2005 WDI includes more than 800 indicators in 83 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. According to the WDI data, only 33 countries are on track to reach the 2015 goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds from its 1990 level. Almost 11 million children in developing countries die before the age of five, most from causes that are readily preventable in rich countries. These include acute respiratory infection, diarrhea, measles and malaria, which together account for 48 percent of child deaths in the developing world.
Four regions-East Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa-have made substantial progress toward the target of reducing child mortality by two-thirds. The most difficult challenge is faced by Sub-Saharan Africa, where child mortality has fallen only marginally, from 187 deaths per thousand in 1990 to 171 deaths in 2003, the last year for which figures are available. The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for Sub-Saharan Africa is to reduce the under-five mortality rate to 62 deaths per thousand by 2015.
Also, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa lag far behind the "Education for All" goal and, at the present pace, will not reach it by 2015, while the developing countries of Europe and Central Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, will also have to pick up their pace of enrolments to achieve it. Meanwhile, the regions of East Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to reach the target well before 2015.
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