Yemen crisis: 85,000 children 'dead from malnutrition' [View all]

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Source: BBC

An estimated 85,000 children under the age of five may have died from acute malnutrition in three years of war in Yemen, a leading charity says.

The number is equivalent to the entire under-five population in the UK's second largest city of Birmingham, Save the Children adds.
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Save the Children says it based its figures on mortality rates for untreated cases of Severe Acute Malnutrition in children under five from data compiled by the UN. According to conservative estimates, it calculated that around 84,700 children may have died between April 2015 and October 2018.
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The charity says that based on historical studies, if acute malnutrition is left untreated, around 20-30% of children will die each year.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46261983