Editing Child (section)

== Health ==

===Child mortality===
{{Main article|Child mortality|Infant mortality}}
[[File:2012 Infant mortality rate per 1000 live births, under-5, world map.svg|thumb|360px|World infant mortality rates in 2012.<ref name="unicef2013">{{cite web|date=2013|title=Infant Mortality Rates in 2012|url=http://www.childmortality.org/files_v16/download/UNICEF%202013%20IGME%20child%20mortality%20Report_Final.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714153724/http://www.childmortality.org/files_v16/download/UNICEF%202013%20IGME%20child%20mortality%20Report_Final.pdf|archive-date=14 July 2014|publisher=[[UNICEF]]}}</ref>]]
During the early 17th century in [[England]], about two-thirds of all children died before the age of four.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VL_6X5zWOokC&pg=PA47|title=America's promise: a concise history of the United States (Volume 1: To 1877)|vauthors=Rorabaugh WJ, Critchlow DT, Baker PC|date=2004|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-7425-1189-7|page=47}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> During the [[Industrial Revolution]], the life expectancy of children increased dramatically.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|date=29 October 2020|title=Modernization – Population Change|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/387301/modernization/12022/Population-change|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|vauthors=Kumar K}}</ref> This has continued in England, and in the 21st century child mortality rates have fallen across the world. About 12.6 million under-five infants died worldwide in 1990, which declined to 6.6 million in 2012. The infant mortality rate dropped from 90 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990, to 48 in 2012. The highest average infant mortality rates are in sub-Saharan Africa, at 98 deaths per 1,000 live births – over double the world's average.<ref name="unicef2013" />