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Charts 3 Exercises
Chart 3.
Child Mortality Rate for Boys and Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries,
1988-98 (per 1,000)
1. Study Chart
3 and answer the following questions:
- In which region
do boys and girls have the greatest chance of living beyond their
fifth birthday?
- In which region
do they have the greatest chance of dying before their fifth birthday?
- Go to the Map
Gallery and compare these two regions on the Life Expectancy,
Population Growth Rate, GNP per Capita, and Access to Safe Water maps.
In what ways are they similar or different?
- What do these
comparisons suggest about the links between child mortality and these
other indicators?
- Based on your
reading of the text and your own knowledge, what might be other reasons
for the differences in child mortality in these two regions?
2. Look at the table
below and then answer the questions.
Countries
and
GNP per Capita
(high, middle, low) |
Life
expectancy
at birth (1998) |
Child
mortality rate per 1000 live births (1988-1998) |
Adult
mortality rate per 1000 live births
(1998) |
| Males |
Females |
Males |
Females |
| Côte
d'Ivoire (L) |
46 |
71 |
58 |
526 |
513 |
| Jordan
(M) |
71 |
4 |
7 |
158 |
119 |
| Mexico
(M) |
72 |
15 |
17 |
165 |
84 |
| Pakistan
(L) |
62 |
22 |
37 |
172 |
152 |
| Philippines
(M) |
69 |
21 |
19 |
197 |
149 |
| Romania
(M) |
69 |
7 |
5 |
256 |
122 |
| Trinidad
and Tobago (M) |
73 |
4 |
3 |
161 |
101 |
- In which country(s)
do female children (age 1 to 5) survive at a higher rate than males?
- In which country(s)
do adult (defined as age 15 to 60) females survive at a higher rate
than adult males?
- What does the
text suggest may be a reason for why female children do not survive
at a higher rate in some countries?
*
Data unavailable for Middle East and North Africa region.
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Life
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