In Tajikistan in the 1990s, one in ten children died before the age of five. Now, less than half as many children die. Numbers of births have also dropped.
Source: World Bank | Photo: Evgeni Zotov CCBY
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World’s Best Christmas Calendar
AirTame and World's Best News are proud to bring you three stories about progress and positive development from 2016 every day until 25th of December.
Jan 18th, 2016
More children survive in Tajikistan
Jan 21st, 2016
Volunteering scaled up
According to the United Nations Development Program more than 970 million people world wide engage in volunteer work.
Source: http://hdr.undp.org | Photo: Pablo Castro
Dec 20th, 2016
Sales of electric cars booming
In 2010, only 20,000 electric cars were sold worldwide, but in 2015 sales increased to approximately 525,000 electric cars.
Source: Bloomberg | Photo: Windell Oskay