The proletarian infant mortality rate has dropped by 12 per cent.

They vaccinated the kids. They get better water.

Now the reason for that is a good deal less clear than the reason for the decline in infant mortality that happened first

1900, Sweden was there.

Look here. This is the world.

Okay. I give you Singapore, the year I was born.

Some of the effects of malnutrition during pregnancy were immediately apparent in higher rates of stillbirths, birth defects, low birth weights and infant mortality.

We'll swap the axis.

This is just one example.

And one of the questions from which I learned a lot was this one

Lifespan is up by 30 percent in my lifetime.

And these are the so called developing countries.

I'm going to show you the relationship between child mortality on this axis here this axis here is child mortality and here I have the family size.

They have here Singapore.

This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate that their babies are going to die.

It fell in every hospital it went into.

And our kill ratio would be what?

And isn't it a success story.

Maximum rate of death

Minimum rate of death

And on day six, they basically threw in the towel.

But life expectancy has carry on going up and therefore extend so by slowing down the rate of which people die at older ages.

And on this axis, GDP.

They're not available in Indian villages.

You know the two most dangerous years in your life are the year you're born, because of infant mortality, and the year you retire.

But you have been the main sponsor that has enabled us to measure it, because it's the only child mortality that we can measure.

Since 1950, during the last 50 years we have had a fall in child mortality.

Is that likely, do you think, here?

As healthcare improves, as infant mortality goes down, fertility rates start dropping.

And the ones over there, they were so called Western countries.

Internationally comparable data on life expectancy, on kids' maths and literacy scores, on infant mortality rates, homicide rates, proportion of the population in prison, teenage birthrates,

In the first stage from let's say 100 years until 50 years ago, most of the increase in every's lifespan was due to very much fewer people dying in early life especially in infancy.

Mammography isn't perfect, but it's the only test that's been proven to reduce mortality from breast cancer.

Look here you have to end poverty, education, gender, child and maternal health, control infections, protect the environment and get the good global links between nations in every aspect from aid to trade.

Sweden achieved a low child mortality because we started early.

Population growth will mainly occur among the poorest people here because they have high child mortality and they have many children per woman.

Let me show you Thailand, see what a success story, Thailand from the 1960s how they went down here and reached almost the same child mortality levels as Sweden.

They attributed the low death rate of infants to the progress of medicine.

The tuberculosis rate on Pine Ridge is approximately eight times higher than the US national average.

Look even if we look in Africa these are the African countries.

I hoped to prove that by decreasing the first,

But there were costs.

Times to the Huffington Post to the Fox News.

The birth rate and death rate were nearly equal.

And I was sad, because we could see this reversal in Kenya with an increased child mortality in the 90s.