Sentence examples for mortality down from inspiring English sources
And it finds huge improvements in indicators like infant mortality (down from 141 per 1,000 births in 1960 to 48 in 2000) and life expectancy (up from 41 years to 67 over the same period).
Already, tremendous progress has been achieved, with child mortality down by over one third and maternal mortality down by half of what they were in 1990.
This method was developed as an alternative to allow measurement of maternal mortality down to community level, along with analysis on the cause of death.
In this, his most Chekhovian of pieces, Sondheim shoves our own mortality down our throats.
The Vedas describe him as the first man who died, blazing the path of mortality down which all humans have since followed.
And once the filter of mortality is bare, bare like the ass of a baby when it's born into the cold and unloving shit factory we call life, you smoke the filter of mortality down to nothingness.
Child mortality is down, as is the number of people living in extreme poverty.
Child mortality is down by 56.5 percent in Malawi since 1990, 63.8 percent in Sierra Leone, 55.6 percent in Laos, and 61.9 percent in Nicaragua.
Infant mortality is down, school attendance and literacy are up, though only 40% of Ethiopians can read and write.In this section On a dilemma in the Horn Still in the regional game?
Sixty-four percent or more of Afghans now have some access to health care, up from 9 percent under the last year of Taliban rule; eight million children are in school, up from one million in 2001; infant mortality is down; adult longevity is up; half of all Afghan families have cellphones.
In China, the world's most populous country, with over 1.2 billion people, and still relatively poor, the demographic transition is already almost complete; not only has mortality come down faster than in other countries with similar income levels, but in recent decades a sometimes brutal population policy (now being relaxed a little) has restricted couples to one or two children.
