Mothers who have lost a child under five, across birth cohorts
The estimated share of mothers who have experienced the death of a child under five years old, among women whohave had at least one live birth. The decades – 1960s, '70s and '80s – describe the birth cohorts of mothers; they donot describe the decade when children died.
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