These metrics are there to measure progress, and the progress is real and happening. My dad was born in 1951 in a village in neighboring Bangladesh. When he was

These metrics are there to measure progress, and the progress is real and happening. My dad was born in 1951 in a village in neighboring Bangladesh. When he was a kid, over 30% of kids died before age 5: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1072376/child-mortality-rate-bangladesh-historical https://www.statista.com/statistics/1072376/child-mortality-.... This was an improvement compared to 50 years before that, when the under-5 mortality rate was about half (which was about the same as in pre-industrial Europe). Today, the under 5 mortality rate is only 3%. Still higher than the sub-1% of the U.S., but similar to what it was in the U.S. in 1951 at the same time my dad was born.