Child mortality

Deaths before age five, per 1,000 live births.

The under-five mortality rate is the probability that a newborn baby dies before turning five, per 1,000 live births, if the death rates of that year held. The UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, the WHO, the World Bank and the UN Population Division) produces the estimates from surveys, censuses and vital registration, and the World Bank republishes them.

World map · Deaths before age 5 per 1,000 live births

Year

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (updated 2026-10-08) · fetched 26 Oct 2026

Over time · Deaths before age 5 per 1,000 live births

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (updated 2026-10-08) · fetched 26 Oct 2026

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Highest values, 2024

Deaths before age 5 per 1,000 live births. Select a country to add it to the chart.

1 115.6 per 1,000
2 110.7 per 1,000
3 101.1 per 1,000
4 97.3 per 1,000
5 96.7 per 1,000
6 92.1 per 1,000
7 90.5 per 1,000
8 89.7 per 1,000
9 89.7 per 1,000
10 86.4 per 1,000

World: 37.4 per 1,000

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Hello there, I’m Klaus Jürgen Folz. I studied Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil, and I work in Austria as a lead Python and Power BI developer. I built Data Mechanics because good decisions start with facts. Public data is often scattered, hard to find or locked behind paywalls, and too much of what we read about the world is biased. Here, every number is shown as it was published, next to its source, so anyone can check it, compare countries and leaders, and draw their own conclusions.

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