Data and statistics

• Some 27% fewer children died before their fifth birthday in 2007 than in 1990.
• Maternal mortality has barely changed since 1990.
• 27 countries reported a reduction of up to 50% in the number of malaria cases between 1990 and 2006.
• The number of people with access to safe drinking-water
  rose from 4.1 billion in 1990 to
  5.7 billion in 2006.

Source: World Health Statistics 2009