It may be tangled up in the number of children. Spreading resources over more children may put them all further into that 12% category? Anyway it seems to be t

It may be tangled up in the number of children. Spreading resources over more children may put them all further into that 12% category? Anyway it seems to be true that child mortality has dropped across the board. US child mortality used to be almost 50% (in 1800). Now its around 0.7%. Somalia is about where the US was in 1925. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041693/united-states-all-time-child-mortality-rate/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041693/united-states-al...