That's certainly true and remains an unacceptable state of the world, but it's also true that globally, it's a steadily decreasing number, even under conditions

That's certainly true and remains an unacceptable state of the world, but it's also true that globally, it's a steadily decreasing number, even under conditions of population growth. E.g. looking at child mortality over time https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-deaths-igme-data https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-deaths-igme-data