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LONDON — Giving young women an education resulted in saving the lives of more than 4 million children worldwide in 2009, a new study says.
American researchers analyzed 915 censuses and surveys from 175 countries tracking education, economic growth, HIV rates and child deaths from 1970 to 2009.
The researchers found that for every extra year of education women had, the death rate for children under age 5 dropped by almost 10 percent. In 2009, they estimated that 4.2 million fewer children died because women of childbearing age in developing countries were more educated.
The study was paid for by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and is being published today in the British medical journal Lancet.
