This document discusses how living conditions like access to clean drinking water, sanitation, and regional status impact child mortality rates. Countries with greater access to clean water and sanitation have lower child mortality rates. The highest child mortality rates are found in West and Central Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. There is an inverse relationship between literacy rates and child mortality rates, with female literacy rates having more influence. Somalia has the highest child mortality rate of 14.8%. Adult literacy is directly related to child mortality as literacy can increase awareness of health and well-being.

1. Impacts of Living
Conditions on Child
Mortality Rates
By: Tiancong Shen, Nyla Collins, Justin Cerbone, & Lillian
Clarke

2. Clean Drinking Water Access Vs
Mortality Rate Countries with the greatest
percentage of populations
having access to clean water are
concentrated with low Child
Mortality Rates.

3. Sanitation Access Vs Mortality Rate
The sanitation access is
measured by a
proportion of the
country’s population that
has the basic sanitation
necessities, living in
urban regions.

4. Child Mortality Rates
based on Regional
Status
The sustainable
development of each
region around the globe
affects the child
mortality rates seen in
the data gathered from
UNICEF’s current data
on Under-five mortality

5. Highest Child Mortality Rate (under 5)
● West and Central Africa
● Sub-Saharan Africa

6. Literacy rate and Child Mortality rate
● Inverse relationship
● Female literacy rate has more influence

7. Highest country with child mortality
Somalia the horn of Africa it has a rate of 14.8% as
in the maps also shows the region was the best
health.
What is the relationship between a country’s adult
literacy rate and its child mortality rate
The relationship between the adult literacy and
the child mortality is it have a direct relationship in
being indicative of a standard living. As mortality
rates are different since the average life span in
some areas is much greater than in others one
could assume that people in those countries are
biologically not constituted to live as long as
others. As the literacy is not handicap but, there
still remains the fact that the illiterate would be
unaware of availability of literature pertaining to
physical well-being, since literature seems to be
the most channels of communication.

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