Kibae Park 2010, 16 June Infant Mortality in the Developing World, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Color photograph United Nations Photo UN Photo/Kibae Park, www.unmultimedia.org/photo/, Photo ID 451896, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en
Children in Kallyanpur, one of Dhaka's urban slums. According to UNESCAP, children in the Asia-Pacific region now have a much better chance of surviving the first year of life. Between 1990 and 2007, the infant mortality rate fell from 63 to 41 deaths per thousand live births.
