Around 200,000 more children under the age of five are projected to die across the world this year compared with 2024 – the first time this century that has happened – following unprecedented international aid cuts from countries including the U.S.
A report from the Gates Foundation has projected that by the end of 2025, there will be 4.8 million child deaths, compared with 4.6 million the year before. Until now, deaths of under-fives around the world had fallen every year since 2000, when the toll stood at 10 million.
