- Malaria kills approximately 1 million children per year, many of them under age 5 and most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
- In developing countries, one in every six infants is not immunized against tuberculosis.
- While the number of deaths due to measles fell dramatically between 2000 and 2007, one in every four children in developing countries is not immunized against measles.
- Only 55 percent of the world's infants are fully immunized against hepatitis B.
- Only 69 percent of newborns are protected against tetanus.
- Malaria, together with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, is one of the major public health challenges undermining development in the poorest countries in the world.
- There are 1.8 million diarrheal-related deaths per year among young children.
- Children under age 5 account for less than 10 percent of the world's population, but suffer from 40 percent of the diseases attributed to environmental factors.
- Acute respiratory infections annually kill an estimated 2 million children under the age of 5.
- About 1.8 million people, most of whom are children, die annually of food-borne diseases.
- Approximately 37 percent of deaths among children under 5 — 9.7 million worldwide in 2006 — occur in the first month of life.