**RT @_HannahRitchie:**

The most important marker of progress: stopping children from dying.

For most of human history, more than half of newborns died as children.

This is now 4%, globally. In many countries, it's well below 1%.

From @MaxCRoser (https://nitter.moomoo.me/MaxCRoser)'s article: ourworldindata.org/child-mor… (https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past)

https://nitter.moomoo.me/_HannahRitchie/status/1646102563404513281#m