23 OF 1.000 UNDER-FIVE CHILDREN DIE IN ARMENIA: UNICEF

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Nov 12 2009
Armenia

923 out of 1.000 under-five children die in Armenia, United Nations
Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report as of November 11, 2009 reads.

The lowest infant mortality rate was registered in Armenia among the
South Caucasian countries: 30 and 36 deaths out of 1.000 births were
registered in Georgia and Azerbaijan respectively. According to the
report, 65 out of 1.000 children under five die worldwide. Infant
average death rate is 23 out of 1.000 in CIS and Central European
regions, as much as in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

According UNICEF data, among all former Soviet Union republics the
situation is better in Baltic states: 6 children — in Estonia, 7 –
Lithuania, 9 – Latvia and 13 — in Russia and Belarus.

Under UNICEF experts, infant mortality rate reduced within last two
decades (9% in 1990 and 6.5% in 2009).