PRB 2007 World Population Data Sheet: Malnutrition Is a Major Contributor to Child Deaths

From: U.S. Newswire | Date: August 16, 2007 | Copyright information

To: POLITICAL EDITORS

Contact: Ellen Carnevale of Population Reference Bureau, +1-202- 939-5407, ecarnevale@prb.org

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Malnutrition plays a role in the deaths of about 16,000 young children every day, virtually all of them in the developing world. That is a yearly toll of almost 6 million, about the same as the population of Denmark, Jordan, or Laos. By weakening resistance to infection and disease, malnutrition contributes to more than half the deaths of children under 5 worldwide.

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