Research has shown that "girls are five times more likely to be impacted by increases in infant mortality rate than boys."

研究表明，“女童受婴儿死亡率上升影响的几率比男童高出五倍多。”

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The mortality rate of children under five is sixty-six per thousand in India compared with fifty-two in Bangladesh.

印度5岁以下儿童死亡率为千分之66，孟加拉国为千分之52。

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In Malawi, for example, that the country is the highest under-five child mortality rate, one of ten countries in 1990, per thousand live births in 225 deaths, but in 2008 had dropped to 100 cases.

以马拉维为例，该国是五岁以下儿童死亡率最高的十个国家之一，1990年平均每千例活产儿中有225例死亡，但2008年已下降到100例。

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But better than the standard form of pancreatic cancer, which has a 98% mortality rate over five years.

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According to Mr Demombynes and Karina Trommlerova, also of the World Bank, 16 of the 20 African countries which have had detailed surveys of living conditions since 2005 reported falls in their child-mortality rates (this rate is the number of deaths of children under five per 1, 000 live births).

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