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BABIES BORN IN Ireland in 2019 can expect to live until 2101, Unicef said today.
This means Ireland is one of only 28 countries worldwide where 2019 babies will likely live until the 22nd century.
Over the past three decades, the world has seen remarkable progress in child survival, cutting the number of children worldwide who die before their fifth birthday by more than half.
However, there has been slower progress for newborns. Babies dying in the first month account for 47% of all deaths among children under five. In 2017, about one million babies died the day they were born, and 2.5 million in their first month of life.
Unicef Ireland Executive Director Peter Power said: “At current life expectancy rates, a child born in Ireland in January 2019 is likely to live until the 22nd century.
“Unfortunately, nearly half of all children born this year around the world likely won’t have the same positive future. A child born in Ireland in January 2019 is most likely to live to 2101, while a child from Somalia would be unlikely to live beyond 2077.”
175 babies born today
In Ireland, an estimated 175 babies will be born today, a tiny fraction of the 395,072 babies estimated to be born around the world on New Year’s Day.
Unicef’s Every Child Alive campaign calls for immediate investment to deliver affordable, quality healthcare solutions for every mother and newborn.
These include a steady supply of clean water and electricity at health facilities, the presence of a skilled health attendant during birth, ample supplies and medicines to prevent and treat complications during pregnancy, delivery and birth, and empowered adolescent girls and women who can demand better quality of health services.
Of the children who die, most do so from preventable causes such as premature birth, complications during delivery, and infections like sepsis and pneumonia – which Unicef said is “a violation of their basic right to survival”.
2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Under the convention, governments committed to, among other things, taking measures to save every child by providing good quality healthcare.
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My son is due on the 4th Feb, amazing to think he will live to see another century change
@Anthony Healy: Congratulations, but just think, ( I’m assuming here) you have not only seen a new century, but also a new millennium. Best of luck.
@Before it’s too late: yes that thought had just occurred to me
Happy new year
@Anthony Healy: Hopefully he will not have to genuflect to FFG for too long.
@Anthony Healy: congratualations anthony. Wonderful time.
Only If the baby is Lucky enough to make it to birth
@Lorraine mcafee: Come on. nobody is having big families.
@Sean Conway: really? Lol
Look outside your teeny tiny box
@Lorraine mcafee: Yeah that’s a big if in these days unfortunately
@Lorraine mcafee: They’re talking about babies that have been born. Therefore they did make it to birth..
They might just have saved the house deposit by 2101 at the rate things are going.
@Michael Kavanagh: what a beautiful face your cat has :)
@Anne: I agree, such a beautiful cat face x
There are no guarantees in this world. I have two relatives who would give everything they possess to have a baby but cannot. One has travelled to Poland for IVF on numerous occasions because it’s cheaper over there and it has cost the couple a small fortune, the other woman has wanted a baby all her life but only fell pregnant once and sadly miscarried.
It appears very unjust that women who are trying to fall pregnant have huge expenses and women who wish to abort can now do so for free.
@Aine O Connor: excellent point.
The journal posts a story about abortion (killing babies) and then immediately after a story about life expectancy. What a world we live in
@Stipe Miocic: no babies killed in an abortion.That is the world we live in.
@Francis Mc Carthy: Wow, Francis, have you discovered some new means of aborting babies that doesn’t kill them? If so you have solved one of the greatest conundrums of our time. Otherwise, yes, unborn babies are killed by abortion. It’s the very definition of the word.
Civilisation will be in ruins by then afraid.Global warming, mass extinction, toxic oceans etc
@James Wallace: soap operas.
The lucky ones that is
Mentioned the reasons children die of, never mentioned abortion. A bit ironic that this article is about the lives of children and the following article on abortion is about the denial of the chances of the lives of children who will not be allowed to be born. January, Janus the two faced god is alive and well!!!!! Happy birthday to those who get the chance to be born. Miserable death day to those denied that chance through human’s intervention.
And they can expect to work until 2102
They just have to get over getting to full term
A baby born today will probably experience a nuclear war or WW3 at some time in its life .
@Paul Smith: and hopefully they can drink from that half empty glass you have beside you.
@David Daly: gas dry wit love it
@Paul Smith: and will have to work until their 75,to enjoy 5 years of enjoyment
Thankfully I will not age cause im Peter Pan.
Nonsense, Climate Change, Stress, Cancer, Obesity etc, will keep age down . A few outliers will live to exceptional ages, but that will not be the experience of the vast majority
@Angry_Man41: and Simon Harris. He’s done his bit too.
@Angry_Man41: on the flip side though we are constantly making huge progress in medicine.
Things that are fatal or untreatable now may be curable in the future, look at advances in the last 60 years or so.
Abortion is in today don’t forget so some of these babies won’t even see a day let alone the next century! Also, obesity levels and food, cancer, cardiovascular diseases and stress (mostly work related) and these kids will work for most of their lives don’t forget! Not enjoyment of retirement!! This will keep the ages down! Yes there will be the exception as always and some will live to a ripe old age! But not all.
The poor hoors
Hope he gets up early ..and has health insurance.
No one can say how long anyone can live all the best with these new baby’s
What is wrong with this idiotic publication. On the day abortion is legalized this is published beside that story. Absolutely terrible.
@Red Pirate 71: Honestly…Why?
Whatever about children living into the next Century, the information from Unicef about the current situation is not good.
Regardless of how long they live, they won’t see Mayo win an All-Ireland lol :)
Would a Baby broker scenario be better . Those that want to get pregnant but not have a baby trade a baby for what they feel was a loss of their effort in carry the baby for exchange
I’m Conor McCloud, I can’t wait.
As Abraham Lincoln once said
“And in the end its not the years in your life that count; but the life in your years.
Yeah if you’re from foxrock ,
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