Rise in Chinese women鈥檚 life expectancy
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THE life expectancy of Chinese women has increased from 73.33 years in 2000 to 77.37 years in 2013, indicating considerable improvement in their health, according to new data revealed by health authorities.
The rate of maternal death was reduced in the period to 23.2 in every 100,000 women, down 56.2 percent from that of 2000, said Wang Guoqiang, vice minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, at a national conference on healthcare for women and children on Thursday.
The mortality rate for infants and children under five years old also dropped 70.5 percent and 69.8 percent respectively.
But Wang also pointed out difficulties and challenges in maternal and child healthcare.
Greater efforts are needed to realize the UN Millennium Development Goals on health.
Although its mortality rate of children under five has met the UN goal, 200,000 Chinese children die every year, the fifth highest number worldwide, according to Wang.
It is both very urgent and difficult to improve women’s and children’s health in the less developed west of China and the country’s rural areas as well as among its migrant population. Birth defects accounted for 19.1 percent of infant deaths, making this the second-biggest cause of infant mortality in China.
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