Child mortality rates have fallen by more than half, from 12.7 million under-5 deaths in 1990, to 5.6 million in 2016. U.S. leadership and foreign assistance played instrumental roles in this achievement, saving the lives of millions of children around the world.
Save the Children's new report – the first in an annual series – takes a hard look at the events that rob children of their childhoods.
This report looks specifically at some of the major reasons childhoods are ending too soon in America, as measured by five childhood enders.
Save the Children’s 16th annual State of the World’s Mothers report compares the health disparities between wealthy and poor women and children living in cities around the world.