India continues to contribute the most child deaths due to diarrhoeal disease globally--over 1 lakh child deaths in 2015 alone--a new report in the medical journal Lancet has found. Globally, mortality from diarrhoeal disease is dropping and faster still in India; while deaths from diarrhoea in children under the age of 5 declined by 34.3% globally between 2005 and 2015, in India the rate of reduction was an even faster 43.2% However, India's relative success was not enough to move it from the position of the country which contributes the most child diarrhoeal deaths. Between them, India and Nigeria are responsible for 42% of child deaths on account of diarrhoeal disease, but Nigeria's progress was slower than India's between 2005 and 2015. Countries like Bangladesh (60.4%) and China (71%) did much more to reduce child mortality from diarrhoea, according to a new Global Burden of Disease study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal.

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