The chance that an Iraqi child will live beyond age five has plummetted faster than anywhere else in the world since 1990, said a report released Tuesday, which placed the country last in its child survival rankings.

One in eight Iraqi children died of disease or violence before reaching their fifth birthday in 2005, said the report by Save the Children, which said Iraq ranked last because it had made the least progress toward improving child survival rates."

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=cd36f98a-6c59-4830-93fb-836c6dbaacfd&k=76629

I hope this makes the issue a little easier for some of you to understand.