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Under-5 mortality rate

Observed

Probability per 1,000 that a newborn will die before reaching age five, at current age-specific mortality rates.

Ingestedfrom World BankfreshJSON export
Current value, Europe & Central Asia
7.8deaths per 1,000 live births
period 2024
Geography
Europe & Central Asia (ECS)World Bank aggregate, not a continent
Observation date
2024
Unit
deaths per 1,000 live births
Frequency
annual
Ingested
2026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1-year change-0.6improving-7.14%2023 to 2024from 8.4 to 7.8 deaths per 1,000 live births
10-year trend-2.45% per yearimproving-22.00%2014 to 2024compound annual growth rate; total -2.2 deaths per 1,000 live births, from 10 to 7.8 deaths per 1,000 live births
Historical series

Under-5 mortality rate, Europe & Central Asia

Observed
510152025303519901995200020052010201520202024DEATHS PER 1,000 LIVE BIRTHS7.8
35 observations, 1990 to 2024latest point emphasised
Data table (35 rows)
Under-5 mortality rate, Europe & Central Asia: 35 observations from 1990 to 2024, values from 7.8 to 30.8 deaths per 1,000 live births. Latest 7.8 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (deaths per 1,000 live births)Source revisionIngested at
20247.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20238.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
202282026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20218.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20208.32026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20198.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20188.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20178.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20169.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20159.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2014102026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201310.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201210.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201111.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
201011.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200912.32026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
2008132026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200713.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200614.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200515.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200416.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200317.42026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200218.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200119.72026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
200020.92026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199922.52026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199823.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199725.12026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199626.32026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199527.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199428.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199329.62026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1992302026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199130.22026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
199030.82026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
243 geographies have observations for this metric
World Bank, World Development Indicators, series SH.DYN.MORT
Definition

What this measures

Under-five mortality rate is the probability per 1,000 that a newborn baby will die before reaching age five, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of the specified year. The estimates are produced by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA Population Division).

Direction
lower is better
Geography level
world, regions, countries
Slug
under5-mortality
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
Classification
Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
Source organization
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Series ID
SH.DYN.MORTlast fetch: ok
Source links
License and attribution
Approved with attribution
World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0
Terms of use
Last source update
2026-07-13(source revision label as published by the provider)
Last ingestion
last successful runfresh
Last run
success2026-09-07 10:04 UTC
Parser version
world-bank-v2/1.0.0
Methodology version
1.0
Quality and confidence
Modelled by the UN IGME from survey, census and vital registration data; the whole series is re-estimated at each release.
Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 1,000 deaths per 1,000 live births.
35 periods with values for this geography, 1990 to 2024.
Revisions
Values reported for the latest period (2024) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revisionValue (deaths per 1,000 live births)Ingested atStatus
2026-07-137.82026-09-07 05:31 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.