It will take until 2028 to reach Goal 4 globally at the current rate. The pace of reduction would need to quadruple in the period from 2013 to 2015 to meet the target of a two-thirds reduction in the under-five mortality rate. Between 1990 and 2012, the world neonatal mortality rate fell by almost one third, from 33 to 21 deaths for every thousand live births.