More than half of this reduction has taken place in the
past decade with the global rate of decline accelerating
greatly – from 1.2% per annum between 1990 and 1995
to 4.0% per annum between 2005 and 2013. As a result,
an estimated 17000 fewer children died every day in
2013 than in 1990. Nevertheless, such a rate of decline
remains insufficient to reach the target of a two thirds
reduction in the 1990 mortality levels by the year 2015.