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There is something very wrong with this world

Mother and child
Baby

This map looks strange because each country has been resized to represent
the number of children under five who die per 1,000 live births*.

Due to a lack of basic medical care, parts of Africa and Asia have
up to 40 times the child mortality rate of Britain and the USA.

Click explore map to see a real life situation in each country and see
if you can make some of the decisions our health workers have to make.

Democratic Republic of Congo
Ethiopia
South Sudan
Pakistan
Afghanistan
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5 impossible decisions.
What will your answers be?

Hover over the Map marker icon to see the child mortality rate* in each country
and click to see if you can make some of the decisions our health workers have to make.

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*This map was created using the World Health Organisation's child mortality data. Child mortality rate refers to the number of children per 1,000 live births who die before age 5. Data used to produce the map was recorded before the independence of South Sudan and will be updated when new figures are available.