Some 21,000 children die every day around the world.

That is equivalent to:

    1 child dying every 4 seconds
    14 children dying every minute
    A 2011 Libya conflict-scale death toll every day
    A 2010 Haiti earthquake occurring every 10 days
    A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring every 11 days
    An Iraq-scale death toll every 19–46 days
    Just under 7.6 million children dying every year
    Some 92 million children dying between 2000 and 2010

The silent killers are poverty, hunger, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes. Despite the scale of this daily/ongoing catastrophe, it rarely manages to achieve, much less sustain, prime-time, headline coverage.