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per 1,000 live births · World Bank

Under-5 mortality rate

Probability of a child born in a specified year dying before reaching the age of five, expressed per 1,000 live births.

Methodology & source

How this is measured.

Definition

Probability of a child born in a specified year dying before reaching the age of five, expressed per 1,000 live births.

Calculation

Joint estimate from UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) — WHO, UNICEF, World Bank, UN Population Division. Uses a Bayesian B-spline model fit to all available country data.

Primary source
World Bank · SH.DYN.MORT
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Update frequency

Annual

Caveats

Country estimates can differ from national official figures because the IGME model harmonises across multiple data sources.

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