Bill Gates favorite number

[the-pi-guy]

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Bill: If we could show you only one number that proves how life has changed for the poorest, it would be 122 million—the number of children's lives saved since 1990.

Melinda: Every September, the UN announces the number of children under five who died the previous year. Every year, this number breaks my heart and gives me hope. It's tragic that so many children are dying, but every year more children live.

Bill: More children survived in 2015 than in 2014. More survived in 2014 than in 2013, and so on. If you add it all up, 122 million children under age five have been saved over the past 25 years. These are children who would have died if mortality rates had stayed where they were in 1990.

Bill: And for every dollar spent on childhood immunizations, you get $44 in economic benefits. That includes saving the money that families lose when a child is sick and a parent can't work.

[Xevross]

This is a nice message.

Keep going, Bill and Melinda