The Future of Poverty

Have high infant mortality rates affected poverty rates around the world?

 

Claim: High infant mortality rates have always affected poverty rates around the world, as when one is high or low, so is the other.

 

Evidence:

"Some 21,000 children die every day around the world.

The silent killers are poverty, hunger, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes."

(Jamie Doward, August 2008)

 

"22 million infants are not protected from diseases by routine immunization"
"7.6 million children worldwide died before their 5th birthday in 2010"
"4 million newborns worldwide are dying in the first month of life"

(Anup Shah, September 2011)