Infant mortality has fallen by more than a third.
Maternal mortality has fallen by almost half since 2000.
Infant mortality has fallen sharply, and life expectancies have shot up.
Premature mortality has fallen sharply and life expectancy has actually doubled since the mid-1990s.
As perinatal mortality has fallen overall, the risks of home births have become more obvious.
Maternal mortality has fallen sharply – down by as much as 64% in southern Asia and 57% in south-east Asia.
Over the last 30 years, infant mortality has fallen sharply, and life expectancy has jumped to 58 years.
"Mortality has fallen rapidly in the last 50 years, achieving in one or two decades what developed countries accomplished in two centuries.
Maternal mortality has fallen to 327 deaths per 100,000 births; the World Health Organisation had put the figure at 1,400 per 100,000.
Child mortality has fallen dramatically since the UN set a the goal of reducing under-fives deaths worldwide by two-thirds, and the spread of HIV infections has fallen by 44% in the last decade.
