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Over 24,000 children die every day around the world. That is equivalent to:

1 child dying every 3.6 seconds
16-17 children dying every minute
A 2010 Haiti earthquake occurring almost every 9-10 days
A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring almost every 10 days
An Iraq-scale death toll every 16?40 days
Just under 9 million children dying every year
Some 79 million children dying between 2000 and 2007

The silent killers are poverty, hunger, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes.

Although the number of children dying each year is being reduced (just under half a million less deaths in 2008 than 2007, for example), the rate of reduction is slow. Furthermore, it is feared that once more recent data comes in, the global financial crisis will undo some of that annual reduction.

And yet, despite the scale of this daily/ongoing catastrophe, it rarely manages to achieve, much less sustain, prime-time, headline coverage. This update includes updated numbers, charts and graphs.

Read full article: Today, over 24,000 children died around the world

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