Data Insight: China’s Great Leap Forward caused a dramatic spike in child deaths
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Mismatch Between Template and Content
This newsletter article is a brief historical data insight from Our World in Data about child mortality rates in China during the Great Leap Forward (late 1950s). It is:
- Not a business or investment publication
- Not directed at investors or entrepreneurs
- ~150 words long, functioning as a data visualization caption
- Focused entirely on a historical humanitarian tragedy
What the Article Actually Contains
The sole substantive content is:
"Child mortality rates in China have fallen from more than 20% in 1950 to less than 1% today. But this steady progress was interrupted in the late 1950s during the 'Great Leap Forward'... child mortality rates spiked in China over this period, with up to one in three children dying before reaching the age of five."
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