Child mortality [since 2000 is] down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. … It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.

Bono contrasts grim expectations about global poverty with measurable, large-scale progress in public health. By translating a multi-million annual decline in child deaths into a daily figure, he makes an abstract statistic emotionally legible and morally urgent. The second sentence—his frustration that “most people don’t seem to know this news”—targets a perceived media and public bias toward catastrophe narratives, arguing that ignorance of success stories can sap political will and philanthropic momentum. Implicitly, the quote defends evidence-based development (vaccination, malaria control, maternal care, sanitation) and suggests that recognizing progress is not complacency but a tool for sustaining and scaling what works.