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# Long description

The figure is a pie chart showing the percentages of the total deaths among children in 2008 due to different causes, as follows: non-infectious neonatal causes, 29 per cent; pneumonia, 18 per cent; diarrhoeal diseases, 15 per cent; malaria, 8 per cent; neonatal sepsis, 6 per cent; injuries, 3 per cent; HIV/AIDS, 2 per cent; measles, 1 per cent; neonatal tetanus, 1 per cent; and all other causes combined, 17 per cent.