HOUSTON: Nearly 5.9 million children will die before their fifth birthday this year mainly of preventable causes, a UN report has warned, though the child mortality rate has fallen by more than 50 per cent since 1990.

The mortality rate among children under five has fallen from 12.7 million deaths per year in 1990 to under six million in 2015, a report by the World Health Organization and UN's children agency Unicef said.

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