17,000 children die every day, mostly from preventable or treatable causes. • The births of nearly 230 million children under age 5 worldwide (about one in three) have never been officially recorded, depriving them of their right to a name and nationality. • 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation, including 1 billion who are forced to resort to open defecation for lack of other options. • Out of an estimated 35 million people living with HIV, over 2 million are 10 to 19 years old, and 56 per cent of them are girls. • Globally, about one third of women aged 20 to 24 were child brides. • Every 10 minutes, somewhere in the world, an adolescent girl dies as a result of violence. • Nearly half of all deaths in children under age 5 are attributable to undernutrition. This translates into the unnecessary loss of about 3 million young lives a year. UNICEFs statistics and monitoring
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