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The Strongest Vaccine Is a Classroom
51% of the global drop in child deaths traced to women's education
A landmark Lancet analysis of 915 censuses and surveys across 175 countries estimated that just over half (51.2%) of the decline in under-5 mortality between 1970 and 2009 is attributable to increased schooling among women of reproductive age. Education compounds like interest: teach one generation of girls, and their children are measurably less likely to die.
Of 8.2 million fewer children dying worldwide between 1970 and 2009, 4.2 million — 51% — were saved by one thing: women getting more education.