Success in tackling poverty
While there are still huge problems of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa especially, there is growing optimism about tackling the issue of poverty. Africa is among the fastest-growing regions in the world. Access to communications is changing the continent and the use and access to mobile phones has had a huge impact. The number of people living in extreme poverty has fallen in every developing region, including in sub Saharan Africa where rates are highest. Some regions have seen greater progress than others.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has worked hard to vaccinate children in Africa. As a result of this, there are more children in schools, more people working, and more money being spent across the continent. This helps to meet several SGDs.
UNICEF states that ‘almost everywhere in the world, a child born today has a better chance at surviving to age 5 than in 1990’. The WHO says that ‘The global under-five mortality rate declined by 61 per cent, from 93 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 37 in 2020’.
